Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most
popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the
narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited
by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume
explores the extent to which the motion picture industry,
particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the
construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving
chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of
military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American
Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of
films about a specific war or historical period, often
foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the
critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory.
Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its
"invention of tradition", Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers
how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social
coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct
narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of
remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war
films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives such as that
of the rugged pioneer or the "good war" through which filmmakers
invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that
advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As
a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and
reinforce popular understandings of American national character as
it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism,
capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war
movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power,
Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of
warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be
American.
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