Background
Roeder, George Holzshu was born on January 22, 1944 in Baltimore. Son of George Holzshu Senior and Dorothy Virginia (Elmer) Roeder.
( Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of...)
Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public complacency brought on by Allied victories, they released some of these photographs of war's brutality. But to the war's end and after, they continued to censor photographs of mutilated or emotionally distressed American soldiers, of racial conflicts at American bases, and other visual evidence of disunity or disorder. In this book George H. Roeder, Jr., tells the intriguing story of how American opinions about World War II were manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by arresting visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army's censored files. Examining news photographs, movies, newsreels, posters, and advertisements, Roeder explores the different ways that civilian and military leaders used visual imagery to control the nation's perception of the war and to understate the war's complexities. He reveals how image makers tried to give minorities a sense of equal participation in the war while not alarming others who clung to the traditions of separate races, classes, and gender roles. He argues that the most pervasive feature of wartime visual imagery was its polarized depiction of the world as good or bad, and he discusses individuals—Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Mauldin, Elmer Davis, and others—who fought against these limitations. He shows that the polarized ways of viewing encouraged by World War II influenced American responses to political issues for decades to follow, particularly in the simplistic way that the Vietnam War was depicted by both official and antiwar forces.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300062915/?tag=2022091-20
(Censored War : American Visual Experience During World Wa...)
Censored War : American Visual Experience During World War Two by George H. Jr. Roeder. Yale University Press,1993
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OS8HL2/?tag=2022091-20
Roeder, George Holzshu was born on January 22, 1944 in Baltimore. Son of George Holzshu Senior and Dorothy Virginia (Elmer) Roeder.
Bachelor, University Maryland, 1965. Master of Arts, University Maryland, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1977.
With, Maryland. Book Exch., College Park, Maryland., 1962-1968;
research associate, State History Society Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1968-1977;
from assistant professor to professor liberal arts, School of the The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, since 1981;
chair Undergraduate division, School of the The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, since 1993;
lecturer in history, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1981. Member of advisory board Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting World of Art Project, Portland, since 1994. Member selection committee Corporation for Public BroadcastingAnnenberg Project, Washington, 1988, 94, National Endowment for Humanities, 1985-1987, 95.
Visiting assistant professor of history U. Missouri, Columbia, 1977-1979, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1979-1981. Principal history consultant for filmstrip on Vietnam that won gold medal International Film and Video Festival of New York, 1986 and for video on World War II that won 2d place award, 1986. Appeared on Cable News Network, Chicago Public television, and various radio programs to discuss visual presentation of war, 1991-1995.
Keynote speaker 10th Annual Margaret Demorest Humanities Festival, Casper (Wyoming) College, 1995. Lecturer Royal College Art, London, 1993. Presenter Baxter Gallery, Maine School of Art, 1992, Northwestern University, 1989, Stanford University, 1988, University of Michigan, 1988, Smithsonian Institution/Wilson Center, 1987, U. Göttingen, 1985, State History Society Wisconsin, 1985, Chicago History Society, 1985, among others, American History Association, Organisation American Historians, American Popular Cultural Association, and other professional organizations.
Participant Coun.for International Ednl. Exch. faculty seminar, Universities of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, 1991.
( Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of...)
(Censored War : American Visual Experience During World Wa...)
Member Organization American Historians, American History Association.
Married Virginia Eleanor Ormsby, August 23, 1963 (divorced September 26, 1989). Children: Rebecca Virginia, George Holzshu III, Ethan Virgil Ormsby. Married Marie Gabrielle Basso, October 28, 1989.