Beschreibung:
Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. This 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.
1. Hollywood Remembrance and American War 2. Their War, Our War: Private Memory and Public Commemoration in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 3.Lions for Lambs: Ambivalent Memorialization and Melodrama 4. Hysterical Colonels and Kernels: Apocalypse Now Redux and Ápres Coup Remembering 5. Dr. Strangelove: MAD Clowns and Phantom Memorialization 6. "A Quiet Day at the Front": Realism as an Act of Memorialization in Cease Fire 7. The Thin Red Line: The Hero's Desire to be More Realized 8. The Abyss of the "Other": Wounded Memory and the Negative Exception in Letters from Iwo Jima 9. The Living Memorial: War Horse and the Horse Crux 10. Afterword