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The Hollywood War Film - Critical Observations from World War I to Iraq (Paperback)
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Considering selected films representing three periods in history -
World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and the
major conflicts in the Middle East - The Hollywood War Film
reflects on Hollywood's representations of war and conflict, in
order to map some cinematic discourses therein. This results in an
understanding of the Hollywood genre not just as a categorising
tool, but rather as a dynamic, inscriptive, iterative cultural
phenomenon. Broadly, the thesis of the book is twofold: Firstly,
that there are commonalities in Hollywood films representing
distinct conflicts and eras, and that recent war films more closely
echo early war films in terms of their nationalistic and idealistic
perspectives. Secondly, the work proposes a reconfiguring of genre
as less concrete and classificatory, and more dynamic and
iterative. In doing so, The Hollywood War Film analyses some of the
most important war films from the past century, including All Quiet
on the Western Front (1930), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and The Hurt
Locker (2009).
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