Destructive Sublime : : World War II in American Film and Media / / Tanine Allison.
The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the "good war," fought by the "greatest generation" for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 11 color, 30 b-w |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: A Retrospective Look at the World War II Combat Genre
- 1. "No Faking Here": The New Authenticity of Wartime Combat Documentaries
- 2. The "Good War"? Style and Space in 1940s Combat Films
- 3. Rationalizing War: Reconstructions of World War II during the Cold War and Vietnam
- 4. Nostalgia for Combat: World War II at the End of Cinema
- 5. Simulating War on an Algorithmic Playground
- Conclusion: A Bad War? The World War II Combat Genre Now
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index