Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films.
Topics covered include:
the early formation of war cinema
the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film
the ascendancy of ambivalence
Hollywood and the war since Vietnam
war as a way of seeing.
For any student of film studies or American cultural studies, this...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse ...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films.
Topics covered include:
the early formation of war cinema
the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film
the ascendancy of ambivalence
Hollywood and the war since Vietnam
war as a way of seeing.
For any student of film...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as mor...
Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the film was made as well as its continuing and pervasive influence on film today. The contributors track how the film continues to speak to diverse audiences as a touchstone for imagined anxieties over adolescence and coming-of-age, traditional values of family and community, threats from abroad, and the provocations of mass or consumer society. Although the specific sources and motivations for rebellion have shifted, what has persisted is the...
Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the...
September 11, 2001 made the dangers of terrorism horrifyingly real for Americans. Although not the first or only attack on U.S. soil, its magnitude renewed old debates and raised fresh concerns about the relations between media and such events. How should the news-print, cable, network, radio, Internet-cover stories? What visual evidence does the public have the "right" to see and what is not acceptable to show to the viewing public at home? How can-or should-such events be retold cinematically?
Bringing together fifteen classic essays by prominent scholars in a variety of fields,...
September 11, 2001 made the dangers of terrorism horrifyingly real for Americans. Although not the first or only attack on U.S. soil, its magnitude...
