Robert Burgoyne

The New American War Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The New American War Film explores how, in the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic frameworks that surround it have been dramatically reshaped. Drawing attention to changes in gender dynamics and the focus on war's lasting psychological effects within recent films, Robert Burgoyne demonstrates how cinema both reflects and reveals the national imaginary"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781517915445
• ISBN-10: 1517915449
• Artikelnr.: 68100561

Autorenporträt

Robert Burgoyne is author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition (Minnesota, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. Embodiment and Pathos in the War Film: The Hurt Locker
2. Waiting for Terror: Zero Dark Thirty
3. Intimate Violence: Drone Vision in Eye in the Sky
4. War as Revelation: A Private War
5. Four Elegies of War: Restrepo,Infidel,Into the Korengal, and Sleeping
Soldiers—single screen
6. American Pastoral / American Sniper
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index