The war film / edited and with an introduction by Robert Eberwein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eberwein, Robert T., 1940-

Series:

Rutgers depth of field series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]

Contents:

The greatness and continuing significance of All quiet on the Western Front / Alfred Kelly

The World War II combat film : definition / Jeanine Basinger

Auteurism and war-teurism : Terrence Malick's war movie / Dana Polan

Race and nation in Glory / Robert Burgoyne

Home of the brave / Michael Rogin

Represented in the margins : images of African American soldiers in Vietnam War combat films / Brian J. Woodman

Masculinity on the front : John Huston's The red badge of courage (1951) revisited / Guerric DeBona

The Reagan hero : Rambo / Susan Jeffords

Do we get to lose this time? Revising the Vietnam War film / Tania Modleski

Soldiers' stories : women and military masculinities in Courage under fire / Yvonne Tasker

Rehearsing feminism : women/history in The life and times of Rosie the Riveter and Swing shift / Mimi White

Saving Private Ryan and American triumphalism / Albert Auster

The new war movies as moral rearmament : Black hawk down and We were soldiers / Thomas Doherty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-225) and index.

ISBN:

0813534968

0813534976

OCLC:

54685275