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Guerrilla War
Indian Wars in Colonial America
Occupation and Resistance
Popular Culture: Film
Race and Slavery in Civil War Films
Rambo/POW/MIA Films
Science Fiction
Technowar
The American Civil War
The American Revolution
The American War in Viet Nam
War in Popular Culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781440835049
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Tracing the "American Guerrilla" narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history.
American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a mythic narrative in which Americans, despite having the most powerful military in history, are presented as underdog resistance fighters against an overwhelming and superior occupying evil. Unconventional Warriors: The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film explains that this fantasy has occupied the center of numerous war films and in turn shaped the way in which Americans see those wars and themselves.
Informed by the author's expertise on war in contemporary literature and popular culture, this book begins with an introduction that outlines the basics of the "American Guerrilla" narrative and identifies it as a recurring theme in American war films. Subsequent chapters cover one hundred years of American "guerrillas" in film and television. The book concludes with a chapter on science fiction narratives, illustrating how the conventions and politics of these stories shape even the representation of wholly fictional, imagined wars on screen.
Matthew B. Hill, PhD, is associate professor of English in the Humanities Department at Coppin State University, in Baltimore, MD.
