Special Report: War Movie: The American Battle in Cinema

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mike talks with filmmaker Steven Summers about his ambitious five-part docu-series, War Movie: The American Battle in Cinema (2023). It's a fascinating look at how the presentation of war in American movies has changed over the first century of film.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off. Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off. Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.
0:42.8	I'm your host, Mike White.
0:44.4	On this episode, I'm talking with Stephen Summers.
0:47.2	He is the director of war movie, The American Battle in Cinema.
0:50.8	It is a five-part documentary series looking at the history of war in American
0:56.7	films. The more you think about it, the further down the rabbit hole you get. I had a great
1:02.0	time talking with Stephen. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you enjoy the interview.
1:06.7	Can you tell me how you even got interested in making movies? I come from the fine arts background.
1:12.6	So I started off as a painter, getting my hand sturdy that way.
1:17.3	Drawing and stuff like that got involved after that into video art, video installations
1:23.0	that you would see in museums, experimental, if you will.
1:28.1	And then I got into narrative filmmaking,
1:30.9	and then I started to do that and then rolled into documentaries.
1:34.5	So it's been this evolution of going from the still image to the moving image
1:41.4	in different ways, different ways of expressing it.
1:44.5	So I, from a personal standpoint of filmmaking, what I like or how I approach things,
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