A companion to the war film:

"A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today's digital culture. Includes new works from experienced and emerging...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Cunningham, Douglas A. 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Nelson, John C. 1938- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Malden, MA Wiley Blackwell 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118337653
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118337653
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118337653
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118337653
Zusammenfassung:"A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today's digital culture. Includes new works from experienced and emerging scholars that expand the scope of the genre by applying fresh theoretical approaches and archival resources to the study of the war film ; Moves beyond the limited confines of 'the combat film' to cover home-front films, international and foreign language films, and a range of conflicts and time periods ; Addresses complex questions of gender, race, forced internment, international terrorism, and war protest in films such as Full Metal Jacket, Good Kill, Grace is Gone, Gran Torino, The Messenger, Snow Falling on Cedars, So Proudly We Hail, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tender Comrade, and Zero Dark Thirty ; Provides a nuanced vision of war film that brings the genre firmly into the 21st Century and points the way for exciting future scholarship"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - 1. "Hearing" the Music in War Films / Robert Eberwein -- 2. Antilochus's Burden: The Crisis-Catharsis Rhetoric of Bereavement Messages / David Ryan -- 3. War Films in an Age of War and Cinema / John Garofolo -- 4. Exploring War Horror's Narrative Punch in Spielberg's Munich and Saving Private Ryan / Sandra Singer -- 5. The Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal Jacket / Matthew Sorrento -- 6. The Wartime American Woman on Film: Home Front Soldier / Jeanine Basinger -- 7. "Conspiracy of Silence": The Containment of Military Women in World War II Newsreels and Short Films / Anna Froula -- 8. Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF's Lookout Mountain Laboratory / Kevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman -- 9. The Gendered Remembrance of Japanese-American Internment: Come See the Paradise and Snow Falling on Cedars / Yuki Obayashi -- 10. "The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor": Representing Nurses in the Pacific Theater / Debra White-Stanley -- . - 11. In the Exigency of a National Cause: Bollywood's Responses to the Kargil War / Kaustav Bakshi and Ramit Samaddar -- 12. Transnational Algerian War Cinema Revisited: Comic Relief in Merzak Allouache's Bab el-oued City and Bab el-Oued / Christa Jones -- 13. Fifty Years Hence: The Forgotten War Remembered in South Korean and American Cinema / John Nelson -- 14. Dresden (2006): Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States / Linda R. Robertson -- 15. How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science-Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film / Tanine Allison -- 16. Making Citizens out of Soldiers: Rearming the Individual in Paul May's 08/15 / Mark Gagnon -- 17. Those at Home Also Serve: Women's Television and Embedded Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 2006-2014) / Mary Elizabeth Haralovich -- 18. Generation Kill: The Invasion of Iraq As Seen on HBO / Deborah L. Jaramillo -- . - 19. "TiK ToK on the Clock, but the Party Do
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ISBN:9781118337615
1118337611
9781118337622
111833762X
9781118337653
1118337654
DOI:10.1002/9781118337653