Mediating war and identity : figures of transgression in 20th and 21st century war representation / edited by Lisa Purse, Ute Wollfel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Purse, Lisa, editor.

Wollfel, Ute, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of figures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a variety of visual media, as well as the narrative, socio-cultural, political, and historical contexts in which they emerge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Momentary Rupture? Dawn (1928) and the Transgressive Potential of the Edith Cavell Case

CHAPTER 3 ‘An act of wilful defiance’: Objection, Protest and Rebellion in the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Galleries

CHAPTER 4 Figures of Transgression in Representations of the First World War on British Television

CHAPTER 5 The End of Transgression: Fritz Bauer as Traitor on the German Screen

CHAPTER 6 ‘Just another Kraut’? The Wehrmacht Traitor as ‘Good German’ in Hollywood’s Decision before Dawn (1951)

CHAPTER 7 Religious Pacifism and the Hollywood War Film: From Sergeant York (1941) to Hacksaw Ridge (2017)

CHAPTER 8 Military Masculinity and the Deserting Soldier in Stop-Loss (2008)

CHAPTER 9 Activist, Mother, Filmmaker: Competing Transgressions in the Syrian War Documentary

CHAPTER 10 Marie Colvin – The War Hero and the ‘Nasty Woman’

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9514-1

1-4744-4628-0

OCLC:

1306538289