Bibliographie
Bennett, James and Tom Brown, eds. Film and Television after DVD. New York: Routledge,
2008.
Caldwell, John. Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Doane, Mary Ann. “Information, Crisis, Catastrophe” in The Historical Film: History and Memory in the Media. Edited by Marcia Landy, 269-285. London: Athlone Press, 2001.
Gray, Jonathan. Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and other Media Paratexts. New York and London: New York University Press, 2010.
Hoffer, Tom and Richard Nelson. “Docudrama on American Television” in Why Docudrama? Fact-fiction on Film and TV. Edited by Alan Rosenthal, 64-77. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999).
King, Geoff. “Seriously Spectacular: ‘Authenticity’ and ‘Art’ in the War Epic” in Hollywood and War: The Film Reader. David Slocum, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006), 287-302.
Leverette, Marc, Brian L. Ott and Cara Louise Buckley, eds. It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.
Nichols, Bill. Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Ramsay, Debra. Through a Glass, Darkly: American Media and the Memory of World War II. Doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012, unpublished.
Ramsay, Debra. ‘Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature’ in A Companion to the Historical Film, edited by Robert Rosenstone & Constantin Parvulescu, 53-70. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013`.
Ramsay, Debra. “Spectacle in the First Person Shooter – ‘Something to See’.” Film and Media Conference. University of London, June, 2013.
Rollins, Peter. “Victory at Sea.” In Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Peter Rollins, 103-122. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Rosenthal, Alan, ed. Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Schatz, Thomas. “Band of Brothers” in The Essential HBO Reader, edited by Gary R. Edgerton, and Jeffrey P. Jones, 125-134. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008/
Stephens, John and Robyn McCallum. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.
Sturken, Marita. Tangled Memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic and the politics of remembering. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Torgovnick, Marianna. The War Complex: World War II in our Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Discography
Band of Brothers (HBO, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Television, Playtone, 2001):
Commemorative Edition DVD Box Set, HBO, Warner Home Video, 2002:
‘The Making of Band of Brothers.’ Writer/Producer, Joan Finn, 2001.
‘Premiere at Normandy.’ (Entertainment News, 2001)
Band of Brothers Blu-Ray Box Set, HBO, Warner Home Video, 2008
The Pacific (HBO, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Television, Playtone, 2010):
Blu-Ray Box Set, HBO, Warner Home Video 2010: ‘Making The Pacific.’ Executive Producers, Chris Spencer and Karen Sands, 2010
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Notes
Bill Keveney, “Hanks and Spielberg return to WWII together for The Pacific,” USA Today, December 3, 2010, accessed January 22, 2011,
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-03-12 Pacific12_CV_N.htm.
Sara Wayland, “Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s The Pacific,” Collider, February 4, 2010, accessed October 13, 2011,
http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-interview-hbo-the-pacific/15813/.
Tom Hoffer and Richard Nelson, “Docudrama on American Television” in Why Docudrama? Fact-fiction on Film and TV, ed. Alan Rosenthal, (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), 64.
Hoffer and Nelson, “Docudrama on American Television,” 64.
Spielberg uses HBO’s flagship series The Sopranos as an example of ‘mainstream TV’, suggesting that Band of Brothers and The Pacific are distinctive even within HBO’s production of ‘quality’ television. David Gritten, “In Good Company,” Radio Times, (September 29 – October 5, 2001): 46.
Stephen Armstrong, “The Pacific,” Radio Times, (April 3-9, 2010): 26.
“Interview with Steven Spielberg”, TV NZ, no posting date, accessed October 8, 2011, http://tvnz.co.nz/the-pacific/interview-steven-spielberg-3403539.
A great deal has been written on the creation of HBO’s brand identity as a purveyor of programmes that are different from mainstream television. For comprehensive collections, see Gary Edgerton and Jeffrey Jones, eds, The Essential HBO Reader (Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008) and Marc Leverett, Brian Ott and Cara Louise Buckley, eds. It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2008).
Jonathan Gray, Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and other Media Paratexts (New York and London: New York University Press, 2010), 6.
John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998), 6.
Gray, Show Sold Separately, 6.
Greer in “Making The Pacific” (HBO, 2010).
Thomas Schatz, “Band of Brothers” in Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones, eds, The Essential HBO Reader (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 133.
Stephen Armstrong, “The Mother of all Wars,” The Sunday Times: Culture, March 14, 2010, 4-5.
Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past. Vol: Conflicts and Divisions, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-98), 3.
Geoff King, “Seriously Spectacular,” in Hollywood and War: The Film Reader, ed. David Slocum, (New York: Routledge, 2006), 292.
A very similar moment occurs in Saving Private Ryan’s landing sequence.
The analysis of this scene is taken from a conference paper, “Spectacle in the First Person Shooter – ‘Something to See’”, Debra Ramsay, Film and Media Conference, University of London, June, 1013.
James F. Dunnegan, How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare (New York: Quill, 1983), 215, quoted in Frank J. Wetta, and Stephen J. Curley, eds, Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992), 44.
While exact figures are difficult to obtain, civilians are believed to account for over half the mortality rates of World War II. Marianna Torgovnick, The War Complex: World War II in our Time (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 41.
Nora, Realms of Memory, 15.
Nora, Realms of Memory, 14.
Nora, Realms of Memory, 14.
Nora, Realms of Memory, 19.
John Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 162.
Chris Albrecht in “Television Notebook Fox Exec Tout Fiction,” David Kronke and Valerie Kuklenski, Daily News (LA California), (July 18, 2001), accessed October 12, 2009, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TELEVISION+NOTEBOOK+FOX+EXECS+TOUT+FICTION%2c+SUCCUMB+TO+REALITY.(L.A....-a079094844
Allison Romano, “On HBO, war is hype,” Broadcasting and Cable, 131, No. 34 (August 13, 2001): 18, accessed May 7, 2013,
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/91190-On_HBO_war_is_hype.php.
Kessler, in Romano, “On HBO, war is hype”.
Mary Ann Doane, “Information, Crisis, Catastrophe” in Marcia Landy, ed., The Historical Film: History and Memory in the Media, (London: Athlone Press, 2001), 272.
For a representative article on Band of Brothers, see “D-Day Unveiling for War Epic”, BBC news, Entertainment, TV and Radio, June 7, 2001, accessed May7, 2013, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1373148.stm and Armstrong, “The Mother of all Wars,” for an example on The Pacific.
Hanks in Armstrong, “The Mother of All Wars,” 5.
The original Band of Brothers website, constructed by AOL, is no longer available, but the website for The Pacific, established by hbo.com, can still be accessed on http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/index.html
Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 120.
Veteran Herbert Suerth in “Premiere in Normandy” (Entertainment News, 2001)
Debra Ramsay, “Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature” in A Companion to the Historical Film, eds. Robert Rosenstone & Constantin Parvulescu. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 69.
Tom Hanks in “Tom Hanks Returns to The Pacific,” Dave Itzkoff, New York Times: Arts Beat, June 3, 2010, accessed on 8 October, 2011,
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/tom-hanks-returns-to-the-pacific/
Gray, Show Sold Separately, 107.
Caldwell, “Prefiguring DVD Bonus Tracks,” in Film and Television after DVD, James Bennett and Tom Brown, (New York: Routledge, 2008), 161.
For example, a long-running thread on IMDb’s message boards structured specifically around the subject of repeat viewings of Band of Brothers provides evidence of the incorporation of the series into private moments of memorialisation. One poster writes, ‘we watch it once a year, sometimes on D-Day, or sometimes Veteran's day’ (posted November 16, 2008). Another starts viewing the series ‘ten days before Memorial Day, it makes the day even more meaningful’ (posted May 14, 2009). Band of Brothers: Message Boards: ‘Sign here if you watch BOB at least once a year.’ Accessed on May 31, 2010,
http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/board/thread/114317081?d=114317081&p=1#114317081
This thread has since been archived, but others concerning repeat viewings persist.
I explore this trope as it relates to film in more detail in Ramsay, “Flagging up History”, 66.
Leslie Woodhead, “The Guardian Lecture: Dramatized Documentary” in Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV, ed. Alan Rosenthal (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), 109.
It is important to note that paratextual networks may also open up film or television to alternative interpretations and historical perspectives, as I argue in Ramsay, “Flagging up History”.
Bill Nichols, Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994), 147.
Peter Rollins, “Victory at Sea,” in Gary R. Edgerton and Peter Rollins, eds, Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age (Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 117.
John Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 167.
Will Lawrence, “Tom Hanks Interview on The Pacific,” The Telegraph, 1 April, 2010, accessed on 8 October, 2011,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7527926/Tom-Hanks-interview-on-The-Pacific.html.
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