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Imperial Benevolence : U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11 /
"'We don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic. We never have been. I can't imagine why you'd even ask the question.' So snapped Donald Rumsfeld at a reporter for Al Jazeera in 2003, just weeks after the George W. Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Camouflaging empire : imperial benevolence in American popular culture / Scott Laderman
- Imperial cry-faces : women lamenting the war on terror / Rebecca A. Adelman
- "Pro-warrior, but not necessarily pro-war" : American sniper, sheep, and sheepdogs / Edwin A. Martini
- "The first step towards curing the post-war blues is a return to nature" : veterans' outdoor rehabilitation programs and the normalization of empire / David Kieran
- Exceptional soldiers : imagining the privatized military on U.S. TV / Stacy Takacs
- Obama's "just war" : the American hero and just violence in popular TV series / Min Kyung (Mia) Yoo
- Superhero films after 9/11 : mitigating "collateral damage" in the Marvel cinematic universe / Tim Gruenewald
- Humanity's greatest hope : the American ideal in Marvel's The Avengers / Ross Griffin
- The perfect Cold War movie for today : smoke and mirrors in Steven Spielberg's vision of the Cold War / Tony Shaw
- Disfiguring the Americas : representing drugs, violence, and immigration in the age of Trump / Patrick William Kelly
- Black ops diplomacy and the foreign policy of popular culture / Penny M. Von Eschen.