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Title Hollywood and war : the film reader / edited by J. David Slocum.

Publication Info. New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  791.43658 H746H    Check Shelf
Description ix, 372 pages ; 24 cm.
Series In focus
In focus--Routledge film readers.
Contents War films / Steve Neale -- War, film, history: American images of 'real war,' 1890-1920 / Geoffrey Klingsporn -- A traveling shot over eighty years / Paul Virilio -- Experiences of modern warfare and the crisis of representation / Bernd Hüppauf -- War as a way of seeing / George H. Roeder, Jr. -- 'Make my day!': spectacle as amnesia in imperial politics / Michael Rogin -- Passions of the real, passions of semblance / Slavoj Zizek -- The Spanish-American war in United States media culture / James Castonguay -- The United States' film industry and World War One / Leslie Midkiff DeBauche -- War on film: the American cinema and World War I, 1914-1941 / Michael Isenberg -- War and cinema: interpreting the relationship / Pierre Sorlin -- World War II and the Hollywood 'War film' / Thomas Schatz -- Leni Riefenstahl's contribution to the American war effort / Thomas Doherty -- Will this picture help to win the war? / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black -- The World war II combat film: definition / Jeanine Basinger -- Hollywood and the World War II conversion narrative / Lary May -- All quiet on the western front (U.S., 1930): the antiwar film and the modern image of war / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Missing action: POW films, brainwashing and the Korean War, 1954-1968 -- Film and the war: representing Vietnam / David E. James -- Vietnam and the new militarism / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner -- Race and nation in Glory / Robert Burgoyne -- Techno-muscularity and the 'Boy eternal': from the quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose -- Seriously spectacular: 'Authenticity' and 'Art" in the war epic / Geoff King -- The Gulf war did not take place / Jean Baudrillard -- In the combat zone / Marilyn Young -- A cultural history of war without end / Melani McAlister.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [338]-347) and indexes.
Subject War films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Added Author Slocum, J. David (John David)
ISBN 0415367794 hardback
9780415367790 hardback
0415367808 paperback
9780415367806 paperback
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