Output details
30 - History
University of South Wales
Article title
Representing and Reconstructing Identities in the Postwar World: Refugees, UNRRA, and Fred Zinnemann's Film, The Search (1948)
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
International Review of Social History
Article number
-
Volume number
56
Issue number
03
First page of article
441
ISSN of journal
1469-512X
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
The Search was an unusual film: it was commissioned by MGM, and conformed to some of the usual methods of Hollywood films of the epoch. Yet it concerned Displaced Persons in post-1945 Germany, and including a genuinely documentary aspect, with shots of 'real‘ refugee children, taken in a 'real‘ UNRRA base. The article considers the lesson taught by this film: that the American presence in the post-war world had to be guaranteed by 'soft power‘.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
1 - History Research Group
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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