{"product_id":"imagining-america-at-war","title":"Imagining America at War","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen films released between 9\/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and what it means to be an American. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the portrayal of America in the films \u003cem\u003ePearl Harbor\u003c\/em\u003e (World War II); \u003cem\u003eWe Were Soldiers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/em\u003e (the Vietnam War); \u003cem\u003eBehind Enemy Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKandahar \u003c\/em\u003e(episodes of humanitarian intervention); \u003cem\u003eCollateral Damage\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn the Bedroom\u003c\/em\u003e (vengeance in response to loss); \u003cem\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/em\u003e (futurist pre-emptive justice); and \u003cem\u003eFahrenheit 9\/11\u003c\/em\u003e (an explicit critique of Bush’s entire war on terror), Cynthia Weber presents a stimulating new study of how Americans construct their identity and the moral values that inform their foreign policy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not just another book about post-9\/11 America. It introduces the concept of 'moral grammars of war', and explains how they are articulated: Many Americans asked in the wake of 9\/11 – not only 'why do they hate us?' but 'what does it mean to be a moral America(n) and how might such an America(n) act morally in contemporary international politics? This text explores how these questions were answered at the intersections of official US foreign policy and post-9\/11 popular films. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also details US foreign policy formation in relation to traditional US narratives about US identity ‘who we think we were\/are’, 'who we wish we’d never been', 'who we really are', and 'who we might become' as well as in relation to their foundations in nationalist discourses of gender and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students of American Studies, US Foreign Policy, Contemporary US History, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Film Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255006056792,"sku":"9780415375375","price":58.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415375375_efe14cc0-f792-47d6-91b3-ea77403b3e3b.jpg?v=1769064354","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/imagining-america-at-war","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}