Frank Wetta

Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi

How Hollywood Turns Military Defeats into Moral Victories

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Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country's military past. Examining twenty-three representative war films and locating them in their cultural and military landscape, the authors argue that Hollywood's view of American military history has evolved in two phases. The first phase, extending from the very beginnings of filmmaking to the Korean War, projected an essential patriotic triumphalism. The second phase, from the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the present, reflects a retreat from consensus and reflexive patriotism. In describing these phases, the authors address recurring themes such as… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Novelli, Martin

ISBN: 978-1-317-59193-1
EAN: 9781317591931
Produktnummer: 21992230
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: PDF
Abbildungen: 10 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

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).