Frank Wetta, Martin Novelli

Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi (eBook, ePUB)

How Hollywood Turns Military Defeats into Moral Victories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country's military past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317591924
• Artikelnr.: 49376910

Autorenporträt

Frank J. Wetta is Lecturer, Department of History and Senior Fellow, Center for History, Politics, and Policy, Kean University. He is co-author of The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory (2014).

Martin A. Novelli teaches film and history at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia and at Kean University. He is co-author of The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "The Very Thought of Losing"
1 "Do this Mean What I Think it Do?"
John Wayne's Alamo (1960)
John Lee Hancock's Alamo (2004)
2 "Are You Calling Me a Liar?"
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
Little Big Man (1970)
3 Alamos of the Pacific
Wake Island (1942)
Bataan (1943)
Back to Bataan (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
4 "We're Supposed to be Angels of Mercy"
Corregidor (March, 1943)
So Proudly We Hail! (September, 1943)
Cry "Havoc!" (November, 1943)
5 "The Misfortunes of My Retreat"
Northwest Passage (1940)
Gung Ho! The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)
6 Planes Roaring, Voices Singing
Command Decision (1948)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
7 Pork Chop Hill is in North Korea Now
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
8 "Go Tell the Americans"
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
9 "Narrowing the Aperture"
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Lone Survivor (2014)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Conclusion: "It is Here that We Lie . . ."
Filmography
Further Reading
Index