American militarism on the small screen / edited by Anna Froula and Stacy Takacs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Froula, Anna, editor.

Takacs, Stacy, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in television studies ; 4.

Routledge advances in television studies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarism on television.

Soldiers on television.

War television programs--United States--History and criticism.

War television programs.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: living room wars / Anna Froula and Stacy Takacs

World War II on the small screen. "Bilko's bombers": anti-militarism in the era of the "new look" / Lisa Mundey

The long fight: combat! and the generic development of the tv war drama series / David Pierson

12 o'clock high and the image of American air power, 1946-1967 / Sam Edwards

Nervous laughter: Hogan's heroes and the Vietnam War / Robert Shandley

Baa baa black sheep and the last stand of the WWII drama / A. Bowdoin Van Riper

A waltz with and for the greatest generation: music in Band of brothers / Todd Decker

Korea and Vietnam on the small screen. The American Forces Korea Network: "bringing troops a touch of home" / Sueyoung Park-primiano

"Everybody here is crazy": images of the disabled on television's M*A*S*H / Kelly J.W. Brown

Drinking the war away: televisual insobriety and the meanings of alcohol in M*A*S*H / David Scott Diffrient

Small-screen insurgency: entertainment television, the Vietnamese Revolution, and the Cold War, 1953-1967 / Scott Laderman

China Beach and the good series death / Christine Becker

Contemporary conflicts on the small screen. Imagining the new military of the 1990's in Babylon 5's future wars / Kathleen Kennedy

Jag, melodrama, and militarism / Stacy Takacs

Political amnesia over here and imperial spectacle over there / Anna Froula

Generation kill and the new screen combat / Magdalena Yüksel and Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

"Don't ask, don't tell" and its repeal in Showtime's The l word and Lifetime's Army wives / Liora Elias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138927698

1138927694

OCLC:

919342540