Martial culture, silver screen : war movies and the construction of American identity
2020
791.43 H922 2020
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Title
Martial culture, silver screen : war movies and the construction of American identity
Variant Title
War movies and the construction of American identity|History, sir, will tell lies as usual : founders, patriots, and the war for independence on film
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
Description
vi, 303 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
791.43 H922 2020
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1195816136
Note
"History, sir, will tell lies as usual : founders, patriots, and the war for independence on film" / Kylie A. Hulbert: p. [21]-[46].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
L2022M10
"... explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terror .... Hollywood war films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives-such as that of the rugged pioneer or the "good war"-through which filmmakers invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and reinforce popular understandings of American national character as it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism, capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power, "Martial Culture, Silver Screen" lays bare how cinematic versions of warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be American"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
L2022M10
"... explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terror .... Hollywood war films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives-such as that of the rugged pioneer or the "good war"-through which filmmakers invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and reinforce popular understandings of American national character as it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism, capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power, "Martial Culture, Silver Screen" lays bare how cinematic versions of warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be American"--Provided by publisher.
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