Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict
Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate.Such cultural reflection is particularly poignant when it deals with America's traumatic history of war. The nation has no direct access to war as a horrific experience of carnage and human destruction; we…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8135-5398-6
- EAN: 9780813553986
- Produktnummer: 13750731
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.3 cm 612 g
- Auflage: None
- Gewicht: 612
Über den Autor
ELISABETH BRONFEN is a professor of English and American studies at the University of Zurich. She is the author of Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic; The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and its Discontents; and Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema.
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