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03508aam a2200421 i 4500 001 40F8409A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210326t20212021caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021013469 020 $a 0520379306 020 $a 9780520379305 020 $a 0520379292 020 $a 9780520379299 035 $a (OCoLC)1243352005 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OSZ $d YDX $d NYP $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1997.G6866 $b P65 2021 082 00 $a 791.43/72 $2 23 100 1 $a Polan, Dana B., $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Dreams of flight : $b The great escape in American film and culture / $c Dana Polan. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history. Caught on film, the iconic jump of escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) over an imposing barbed wire fence on a stolen motorcycle has become an unforgettable symbol of a disaffected 1960s America. Dreams of Flight offers the first full-length study of The Great Escape, the classic film based on a true story of American and Allied prisoners of war who hatched an audacious plan to divert and thwart the Wehrmacht and escape into the nearby countryside. Through breezy prose and pithy analysis, Dana Polan centers The Great Escape within American cultural and intellectual history, drawing a vivid picture of the country in the 1960s. We see a nation grappling with its own military history; a society undergoing significant shifts in its culture and identity; a film industry in transition from Old Hollywood's big-budget runaway studio films to the slow interior cinema of New Hollywood. Dreams of Flight combines history with fan anecdotes and a close study of filmic style to bring readers into the film and its wide-reaching influence. Polan examines the production history, including prior adaptations in radio and television of celebrated author Paul Brickhill's original nonfiction book about the escape, and he compares the cinematic fiction to the real events of the escape in 1944. Dreams of Flight also traces the afterlife of The Great Escape in the many subsequent movies, TV commercials, and cartoons that reference it, whether reverentially or with humor"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Engineering The great escape : from book to film (and in-between) -- Tunneling in : The great escape : style, theme, and structure -- After-lives -- Appendix : "It really happened". 630 00 $a Great escape (Motion picture) 630 07 $a Great escape (Motion picture) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01783317 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Polan, Dana B., 1953- $t Dreams of flight $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] $z 9780520976610 $w (DLC) 2021013470 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024510.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=40F8409A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search