| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lisa Purse and Ute Wölfel -- Momentary rupture? Dawn (1928) and the transgressive potential of the Edith Cavell Case / Claudia Sternberg -- 'An act of wilful defiance': objection, protest and rebellion in the Imperial War Museum's First World War Galleries / Rebecca Clare Dolgoy -- Figures of transgression in representations of the First World War on British television / Emma Hanna -- The end of transgression: Fritz Bauer as traitor on the German screen / Ute Wölfel -- 'Just another Kraut'? The Wehrmacht traitor as 'Good German' in Hollywood's Decision before Dawn (1951) / Patrick Major -- Religious pacifism and the Hollywood war film: from Sergeant York (1941) to Hacksaw Ridge (2017) / Guy Westwell -- Military masculinity and the deserting soldier in Stop-Loss (2008) / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre. |
| Summary |
Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of figures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a variety of visual media, as well as the narrative, socio-cultural, political and historical contexts in which they emerge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War films -- History and criticism.
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War films. |
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Military deserters in motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Purse, Lisa, editor.
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Wölfel, Ute, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mediating war and identity. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 9781474446266 (OCoLC)1231177995 |
| ISBN |
9781474446280 (electronic book) |
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1474446280 (electronic book) |
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9781474446266 (hardback) |
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1474446264 (hardback) |
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