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Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy
between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance.
Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered 'the
war memorials of today' to critical scrutiny, the book develops a
theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical
sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist
American modes of remembrance. The authors first develop the
framework for, and elaborate on, the co-evolution of Hollywood war
cinema and American war memorialization in the historical,
political and ideological terms of remembrance, and the parallel
synergic relationship between the aesthetic and industrial status
of Hollywood war cinema and the remembering of American war on
film. The chapters then move to analysis of Hollywood war films -
covering The Great War, World War II, The Korean War, The Vietnam
War, The Cold War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - and
critically scrutinize the terms upon which a film could be
considered a memorial to the war it represents. Bringing together
the fields of film studies and memory studies, this book will be of
interest to scholars and students in not just these areas but those
in the fields of history, media and cultural studies more broadly,
too.
Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy
between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance.
Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered 'the
war memorials of today' to critical scrutiny, the book develops a
theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical
sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist
American modes of remembrance. The authors first develop the
framework for, and elaborate on, the co-evolution of Hollywood war
cinema and American war memorialization in the historical,
political and ideological terms of remembrance, and the parallel
synergic relationship between the aesthetic and industrial status
of Hollywood war cinema and the remembering of American war on
film. The chapters then move to analysis of Hollywood war films -
covering The Great War, World War II, The Korean War, The Vietnam
War, The Cold War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - and
critically scrutinize the terms upon which a film could be
considered a memorial to the war it represents. Bringing together
the fields of film studies and memory studies, this book will be of
interest to scholars and students in not just these areas but those
in the fields of history, media and cultural studies more broadly,
too.
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social
relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary
political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled
recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and
the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This
timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental
history of northern Canada - clarifying both its practice and
promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public
debates. Ice Blink provides opportunities to consider critical
issues in other disciplines and geographic contexts. Contributors
also examine whether distinctive approaches to environmental
history are required when studying the Canadian North, and consider
a range of broader questions. What, if anything, sets the study of
environmental history in particular regions apart from its study
elsewhere? Do environmental historians require regionally-specific
research practices? How can the study of environmental history take
into consideration the relations between Indigenous peoples, the
environment, and the state? How can the history of regions be
placed most effectively within transnational and circumpolar
contexts? How relevant are historical approaches to contemporary
environmental issues? Scholars from universities in Canada, the
United States and Britain contribute to this examination of the
relevance of historical study for contemporary arctic and
sub-arctic issues, especially environmental challenges, security
and sovereignty, indigenous politics and the place of science in
northern affairs. By asking such questions, the volume offers
lessons about the general practice of environmental history and
engages an international body of scholarship that addresses the
value of regional and interdisciplinary approaches. Crucially,
however, it makes a distinctive contribution to the field of
Canadian environmental history by identifying new areas of research
and exploring how international scholarly developments might play
out in the Canadian context. With contributions by: Tina Adcock,
Stephen Bocking, Emilie Cameron, Hans M. Carlson, Marionne Cronin,
Matthew Farish, Arn Keeling, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Tina Loo, Paul
Nadasdy, Jonathan Peyton, Liza Piper, John Sandlos, Andrew Stuhl
This book challenges this conventional wisdom that land claims and
co-management - two of the most visible and celebrated elements of
this restructuring the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and
the Canadian state - will help reverse centuries of inequity. Based
on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, the author
examines the complex relationship between the people of Kluane
First Nation, the land and animals, and the state. This book moves
beyond conventional models of colonialism, in which the state is
treated as a monolithic entity, and instead explores how "state
power" is reproduced through everyday bureaucratic practices -
including struggles over the production and use of knowledge.
In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land
claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of
government-to-government relations and grant individual First
Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over
their peoples, lands, and resources. Those agreements, however, are
predicated on the assumption that if First Nations are to qualify
as governments at all, they must be fundamentally state-like, and
they frame First Nation powers in the culturally contingent idiom
of sovereignty. Based on over five years of ethnographic research
[carried out] in the southwest Yukon, Sovereignty's Entailments is
a close ethnographic analysis of everyday practices of state
formation in a society whose members do not take for granted the
cultural entailments of sovereignty. This approach enables Nadasdy
to illustrate the full scope and magnitude of the "cultural
revolution" that is state formation and expose the culturally
specific assumptions about space, time, and sociality that lie at
the heart of sovereign politics. Nadasdy's timely and insightful
work illuminates how the process of state formation is transforming
Yukon Indian people's relationships with one another, animals, and
the land.
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