Eastwood's Iwo Jima : : Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima / / ed. by Rikke Schubart, Anne Gjelsvik.
With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations' perspectives, in two languages,...
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself
- Part One. History
- The Making and Remakings of an American Icon: 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima' from Photojournalism to Global, Digital Media
- The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust's Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile
- Flags of Their Stepfathers? Race and Culture in the Context of Military Service and the Fight for Citizenship
- Part Two. Flags of Our Fathers
- Following the Flag in American Film
- Care or Glory? Picturing a New War Hero
- Beyond Mimesis: War, History, and Memory in Flags of Our Fathers
- Clint Eastwood's Postclassical Multiple Narratives of Iwo Jima
- Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers
- Part Three. Letters From Iwo Jima
- Eastwood and the Enemy
- East of Eastwood: Iwo Jima and the Japanese Context
- Humanism versus Patriotism: Eastwood Trapped in the Bi-polar Logic of Warfare
- Suicide in Letters from Iwo Jima
- Part Four. War Today
- To Sell A War: Flags, Lies, And Tragedy
- Banzai! Letters from Iwo Jima and Choosing the Enemy in Risk Society
- Filmography
- Index