Destructive sublime : World War II in American film and media /
"The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the 'good war, ' fought by the "greatest generation" for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spec...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2018]
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| Serie: | War culture.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1fxkkh |
Sommario:
- Introduction: A retrospective look at the World War II combat genre
- "No faking here": The new authenticity of wartime combat documentaries
- The "good war"? Style and space in 1940s combat films
- Rationalizing war: Reconstructions of World War II during the Cold War and Vietnam
- Nostalgia for combat: World War II at the end of cinema
- Simulating war on an algorithmic playground
- Conclusion: A bad war? The World War II combat genre now.