Hollywood and War, the Film Reader

Name: Hollywood and War, the Film Reader
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ISBN: 9780415367806

ISBN-10: 0415367808

ISBN-13: 9780415367806

Edition: 2006

Authors: J. David Slocum

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Hollywood and War provides analyses of some of the most important productions constituting the war film genre, and pays particular attention to how the constituent elements of that genre emerged and have been continually reproduced and recast from the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II, through the Korean War and Vietnam to conflicts in the Gulf and the current war against terrorism. Hollywood and War also discusses the complex institutional relations between Hollywood and the U.S. military, government, and American society.

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


General Introduction: Seeing Through American War Cinema




War Films




War as a Way of Seeing


Introduction



War, film, history: American Images of 'real war,' 1890-1920




A Traveling Shot over Eighty Years




Experiences of Modern Warfare and the Crisis of Representation




War as a Way of Seeing




'Make My Day!': Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics




Passions of the Real, Passions of Semblance




Early Formations of War Cinema in the United States


Introduction



The Spanish-American War in United States Media Culture




The United States' Film Industry and World War One




War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941




War and Cinema: Interpreting the Relationship




The Apotheosis of the Hollywood War Film


Introduction



World War II and the Hollywood 'War Film'




Leni Riefenstahl's Contribution to the American War Effort




Will this Picture Help to Win the War?




The World War II Combat Film: Definition




Hollywood and the World War II Conversion Narrative




Shadows of Ambivalence


Introduction



All Quiet on the Western Front (U.S., 1930): The Antiwar Film and the Modern Image of War




Missing Action: POW Films, Brainwashing and the Korean War, 1954-1968




Film and the War: Representing Vietnam




Vietnam and the New Militarism




Race and Nation in Glory




Hollywood and War: Contemporary Formations


Introduction



Techno-Muscularity and the 'Boy Eternal': From the Quagmire to the Gulf




Seriously Spectacular: 'Authenticity' and 'Art' in the War Epic




The Gulf War Did Not Take Place




In the Combat Zone




A Cultural History of War Without End



Bibliography


Film titles index


Names and subjects index