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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Historical Leaders and Celebrities: Their Role in Mythmaking in the Cinema
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Hollywood’s War Myths in the 1940s and 1950s
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Ideologies, Nationality, and War Memory
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Men, Women, and Trauma: Heroes and Anti-Heroes
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Historical Reality, Authenticity of Experience, and Cinematic Representation
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"A timely collection of essays, bringing together a cluster of historical and contemporary chartings of unmapped territory in the interface between cinema and representations of war." - Elisabeth Bronfen, author of Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagment with Military Conflict
"The best scholarship in the humanities is not that which answers questions but that which teaches us to ask ones we never thought of before. Heroism and Gender in War Films accomplishes this task of opening the mind by being not just another book about a well-studied genre of popular culture. The topics and authors are eclectic - from 'Mary Pickford's WWI Patriotism' to 'A People's Humor as an Aesthetic Stratagem in Golpe de Estadio (1998)' to 'Myth and Spectacle in The Hunger Games' - and what they have in common is originality, liveliness, and the choice of fascinating case studies. It's the kind of book that I think undergraduates in a gender studies class, film scholars and yes, the educated layperson wanting to learn new ways to look at movies will enjoy equally. Read Heroism and Gender in War Films and you will discover lost classics of film you may have never heard of and greatly expand your toolkit to study them as well as the latest Hollywood blockbuster." - David D. Perlmutter, Texas Tech University, USA and author of Visions of War and Photojournalism and Foreign Policy
"Assumptions concerning gender roles, behaviors and expectations are so deeply imbued in representations of war that one can view the entire genre of war films as an obstinately gendered form of expression. Yet the gender portrayals and cinematic perspectives of war-related films have shifted in significant ways, across different cultures of filmmaking and within Hollywood dominated popular culture. In fact, looking through the lens of gender calls into question the very parameters of the war film as a genre. This collection of critical essays opens up a wide-ranging discussion of the role of gender in representations of war and heroism, reorienting our consideration of these issues from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives." - Michael Griffin, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College, USA and author of "Media Images of War", Media, War, and Conflict
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Book Title: Heroism and Gender in War Films
Editors: Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Jakub Kazecki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137360724
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Jakub Kazecki 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36453-1Published: 07 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47334-2Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36072-4Published: 07 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 271
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Genre, Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Film History