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.
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.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo Jima Chapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968) Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley's and Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers Chapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore's The Green Berets (1965) Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (2014) Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers Chapter Seven: The Hero's Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Hasford's Counter-attack Coda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future
Chapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo Jima Chapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968) Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley's and Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers Chapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore's The Green Berets (1965) Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (2014) Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers Chapter Seven: The Hero's Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Hasford's Counter-attack Coda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future
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