| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts, support political agendas and institutions, and influence collective memory. |
| Contents |
Historical leaders and celebrities: their role in mythmaking in the cinema. Mary Pickford's WWI patriotism: a feminine approach to wartime mythical Americanness / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- The reluctant hero: negotiating war memory with modern-day myths in Passchendaele / Janis L. Goldie -- A hero or a villain, a terrorist or a liberator? the filmic representations of Gavrilo Princip since the late 1960s / Tara Karajica -- Hollywood's war myths in the 1940s and 1950s. No women! only brothers: propaganda, studio politics, Warner Bros., and the fighting 69th (1940) / Rochelle Sara Miller -- The postwar anxiety of the American pin-up: William Wyler's The best years of our lives (1946) / Lesley C. Pleasant -- Ideologies, nationality, and war memory . Germany's heroic victims: the cinematic redemption of the Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front / Brian E. Crim -- Balls and bullets: a people's humor as an aesthetic stratagem in Golpe de estadio (1998) / Claudia Aburto Guzmán -- From saviors to rapists: G.I.s, women, and children in Korean war films / Hye Seung Chung -- Men, women and trauma: heroes and anti-heroes. I don't know how she lives with this kitchen the way it is: military heroism, gender, and race in Brothers (2004 and 2009) / Debra White-Stanley -- The gendered geometry of war in Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Janet S. Robinson -- Rebel tributes and tyrannical regimes: myth and spectacle in The hunger games (2012) / Jessica R. Wells -- Mulan (1998) and Hua Mulan (2009): national myth and trans-cultural intertextuality / Jinhua Li -- Historical reality, authenticity of experience, and cinematic representation. What shall the history books read?" Quentin Tarantino's basterdized histories and corporeal inscriptions / Tiel Lundy -- There's something about Maya: on being/becoming a heroine and the "war on terror" / Charles-Antoine Courcoux. |
| Subject |
War films -- History and criticism.
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War films. |
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Heroes in motion pictures.
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Heroes in motion pictures. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Ritzenhoff, Karen A., editor.
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Kazecki, Jakub, editor.
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| ISBN |
113736453X (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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1137360720 |
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9781137364531 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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9781137360724 |
| Standard No. |
40023955478 |
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