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All Quiet on the Western Front
American Culture
and World War II
armed forces in film
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Courage under Fire
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film and American culture
film and American history
films about war
Flags of our Fathers
Full Metal Jacket
Guts and Glory
Jarhead
John Wayne
Kathryn Bigelow
Platoon
Projections of War: Hollywood
studying wars in films
The Manchurian Candidate
war film course
war film genre
war film textbook
World War II combat films
Product details
- ISBN 9781405173902
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 153 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment
- Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth analysis of specific films
- Includes chapters on All Quiet on the Western Front, World War II combat films, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Eastwood’s Iwo Jima films, and Iraq war films
- An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the war film genre
Robert Eberwein is Distinguished Professor of English at Oakland University. His publications include Armed Forces: Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film (2007), The War Film (2004).
