Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Gebundenes Buch

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture

Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II

Beschreibung

This book examines the portrayal of combat and military death in American popular culture, from the flag-raising on Iwo Jima to the war in Iraq, to show how the genres of melodrama, adventure, and horror shape the way Americans feel about war and its core realities of killing and dying.

Autor

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781793634955
• ISBN-10: 1793634955
• Artikelnr.: 60152448