Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1 Historical Context.- 2 Production History.- 3 Reception.- 4 Aesthetics.- 5 Best Years' Thematic Connotations.- Afterword.- Notes.- Credits.- Select Bibliography.

Promotional Information

Named as one of Kansas City Star's top 100 books of 2011: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/01/3297721/the-stars-top-100-books-of-2011.html#ixzz1fPZcCN3Q 'Part of my admiration for this intelligent and judicious contribution to the BFI Film Classics - a series that by now may qualify as the most successful and title-heavy book series in the history of film criticism, perhaps in any language - is my conviction, which I share with Kozloff, that William Wyler's 1946, 171-minute masterpiece about returning American soldiers after the end of WW2 is, existentially speaking, a rare and almost unprecedented act of witness and social conscience for a Hollywood feature.' - Jonathan Rosenbaum

About the Author

SARAH KOZLOFF is Professor in the Department of Film, on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. She is the author of a number of books, including Overhearing Film Dialogue (2000) and Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film (1988).

Reviews

Named as one of Kansas City Startop 100 books of 2011
*http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/01/3297721/the-stars-top-100-books-of-2011.html*

Part of my admiration for this intelligent and judicious contribution to the BFI Film Classics - a series that by now may qualify as the most successful and title-heavy book series in the history of film criticism, perhaps in any language - is my conviction, which I share with Kozloff, that William Wyler's 1946, 171-minute masterpiece about returning American soldiers after the end of WW2 is, existentially speaking, a rare and almost unprecedented act of witness and social conscience for a Hollywood feature.
*Jonathan Rosenbaum*