Destructive Sublime : World War II in American Film and Media /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Allison, Tanine, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
War films.
War and motion pictures.
Mass media and war.
Computer war games.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Jeux de guerre sur ordinateur.
Films de guerre > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cinema et guerre.
War films > United States > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Mass media and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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