Hollywood Remembrance and American War (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rayment, Andrew; Nadasdy, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. This book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist American modes of remembrance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000171396
• Artikelnr.: 59751873

Autorenporträt

Andrew Rayment is Associate Professor of Anglophone Culture at Chiba University, Japan. His research explores the intersection between popular genres of literature / film and ideology within a psychoanalytical paradigm. He is the author of Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity: Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and Stories of the Eye. Paul Nadasdy is Associate Professor and Lecturer of English at Tokyo Denki University, Japan. He is the author of several academic papers relating to a range of topics within the fields of linguistics and film studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Hollywood Remembrance and American War 2. Their War, Our War: Private
Memory and Public Commemoration in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 3.Lions
for Lambs: Ambivalent Memorialization and Melodrama 4. Hysterical Colonels
and Kernels: Apocalypse Now Redux and Ápres Coup Remembering 5. Dr.
Strangelove: MAD Clowns and Phantom Memorialization 6. "A Quiet Day at the
Front": Realism as an Act of Memorialization in Cease Fire 7. The Thin Red
Line: The Hero's Desire to be More Realized 8. The Abyss of the "Other":
Wounded Memory and the Negative Exception in Letters from Iwo Jima 9. The
Living Memorial: War Horse and the Horse Crux 10. Afterword