The Hollywood war machine : U.S. militarism and popular culture / Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boggs, Carl, author.

Pollard, Tom (Leslie Thomas), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--United States--History and criticism.

War films.

Civilization.

United States.

War and society--United States.

War and society.

Militarism--United States.

Militarism.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

U.S. militarism and popular culture

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous popular military-themed films that have appeared in the close to a decade since the first edition was published. Within the Hollywood movie community, there has not been even the slightest decline in well-financed pictures focusing on warfare and closely-related motifs. The second edition includes a new chapter on recent popular films and another that analyzes the relationship between these movies and the bourgeoning gun culture in the United States, marked in recent years by a dramatic increase in episodes of mass killings. -- Publisher website

Contents:

1. Media culture in the imperial system

2. Militarism in American popular culture

3. War and cinema : the historical legacy

4. The Vietnam syndrome : politics and cinema

5. Recycling the good war

6. Cinematic warfare in the new world order

7. Hollywood after 9/11

Postscript: Blowback and American sniper.

Notes:

Previous edotion published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.

ISBN:

9781612057989

1612057985

9781612057972

1612057977

OCLC:

932646396