عنوان

American war cinema and media since Vietnam :

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1349447439

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9781349447435

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b539944

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American war cinema and media since Vietnam :

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politics, ideology, and class

First Statement of Responsibility

by Patricia Keeton and Peter Scheckner

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New York

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Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2013]

Text of Note

pt. 1. Evolution of American war cinema and media since Vietnam --;Introduction: American war cinema and media since Vietnam: politics, ideology, and class --;The worker as warrior: social class and political betrayal in literature from Homer to Heller --;Resurrecting the good war --;Culture wars and war: gender, race and class --;The role of media: from the manufacture of consent to the manufacture of dissent --;pt. 2. Representations of workers as warriors in contemporary war cinema and media --;Class and politics: contemporary American war films and first person shooter video war games --;Ideological negotiation in the combat film --;The returning veteran and the home front melodrama --;Iraq and Afghanistan war films: where is the ruling class? --;Alternative media and representations of war --;pt. 3. Appendices --;Master list of films since 1973 (alphabetical by title with release date) --;Chronology by year: historical events and relevant films and media.

Text of Note

No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad.

Politics in motion pictures.

Social classes in motion pictures.

War films -- United States -- History and criticism.

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by Patricia Keeton and Peter Scheckner

Patricia Keeton

Peter Scheckner

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