Wartime Kiss : : Visions of the Moment in the 1940s / / Alexander Nemerov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Nemerov, Alexander,
• MitwirkendeR: Archbury, Stovall at,; Bourke-White, Margaret,; Havilland, Olivia de,; Jepson-Turner, Belita,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Essays in the Arts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 46 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; One. Kissing in August 1945 --; Two. Sleeping Beauty --; Three. When the World Smiled --; Four. Sentimental Mysticism --; Five. Hold Back the Dawn --; Acknowledgments --; Bibliographic Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400844883; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400844883
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexander Nemerov.

Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an array of mostly forgotten images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years. Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald.