{"product_id":"hollywood-remembrance-and-american-war-9780367503161","title":"Hollywood Remembrance and American War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHollywood Remembrance and American War\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 scrutin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Hollywood Remembrance and American War 2. Their War, Our War: Private Memory and Public Commemoration in \u003ci\u003eBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 3.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLions for Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e: Ambivalent Memorialization and Melodrama 4. Hysterical Colonels and Kernels: \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRedux\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eÁpres Coup\u003c\/i\u003e Remembering 5. \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e: MAD Clowns and Phantom Memorialization 6. \"A Quiet Day at the Front\": Realism as an Act of Memorialization in \u003ci\u003eCease Fire 7. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thin Red Line\u003c\/i\u003e: The Hero’s Desire to be More Realized 8. The Abyss of the \"Other\": Wounded Memory and the Negative Exception in \u003cem\u003eLetters from Iwo Jima \u003c\/em\u003e9. The Living Memorial:\u003ci\u003e War Horse \u003c\/i\u003eand the Horse Crux 10. Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017931882839,"sku":"9780367503161","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367503161.jpg?v=1750775117","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hollywood-remembrance-and-american-war-9780367503161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}