Theater of cruelty : art, film, and the shadows of war /

Theater of Cruelty has three main themes that frequently overlap, war, film and the visual arts. Many of the movies discussed are about war and violence, often related to World War II, and more specifically deal with the two nations that unleashed the war, Germany and Japan, why they did what they d...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Buruma, Ian
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, [2014]
Series:	New York Review Books collection.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war. War films > History and criticism. National socialism in motion pictures. Violence in motion pictures. War in art. National socialism in art. Violence in art.