Hollywood and war : the film reader /
edited by J. David Slocum.
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
- ix, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
- In focus .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Introduction: Seeing Through American War Cinema / War films / War as a way of seeing -- War, film, history: American Images of "real war," 1890-1925 / A Travelling Shot over Eighty Years / Experiences of Modern Warfare and the Crisis of Representation / War as a Way of Seeing / 'Make My Day!': Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics / Passions of the Real, Passions of Semblance? / Early Formations of War Cinema in the United States -- The Spanish-American War in United States Media Culture / The United States Film Industry and World War One / War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941 / War and Cinema: Interpreting the Relationship / The Apotheosis of the Hollywood War Film -- World War II and the Hollywood 'War Film' / Leni Reifenstahl's Contribution to the American War Effort / Will this Picture Help to Win the War? / The World War II Combat Film: Definition / Hollywood and the World War II Conversion Narrative / Shadows of ambivalence -- All Quiet on the Western Front (U.S., 1930): The Antiwar Film and the Modern Image of War? / Missing Action: POW Films, Brainwashing and the Korean War, 1954-1968 / Film and the War: Representing Vietnam / Vietnam and the New Militarism / Race and Nation in Glory / Hollywood and War: Contemporary Formations -- Techno-Muscularity and the 'Boy Eternal': From the Quagmire to the Gulf / Seriously Spectacular: 'Authenticity' and 'Art' in the War Epic / The Gulf War Did Not Take Place / In the Combat Zone / A Cultural History of War Without End / J. David Slocum -- Steve Neale -- Geoffrey Klingsporn -- Paul Virilio -- Bernd Huppauf -- George H. Roeder, Jr. -- Michael Rogin -- Slavoj Zizek -- James Castonguay -- Leslie Midkiff DeBauche -- Michael Isenberg -- Pierre Sorlin -- Thomas Schatz -- Thomas Doherty -- Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black -- Jeanine Basinger. Lary May -- John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Charles Young. David E. James -- Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner -- Robert Burgoyne -- Lynda Boose -- Geoff King -- Jean Baudrillard -- Marilyn Young -- Melani McAlister. Ch. 1. Pt. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Pt. 2. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Pt. 3. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Pt. 4. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Pt. 5. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Ch. 25. Ch. 26.
Hollywood and War provides analyses of some of the most important productions constituting the war film genre, and pays particular attention to how the constituent elements of that genre emerged and have been continually reproduced and recast from the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II, through the Korean War and Vietnam to conflicts in the Gulf and the current war against terrorism. Hollywood and War also discusses the complex institutional relations between Hollywood and the U.S. military, government, and American society.