Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture

Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

549 kr

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Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-23
Mått:154 x 218 x 19 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793634979

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Recensioner i media

A remarkable achievement. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet offers readers a profound, eloquent, and haunting reflection on the relationship between war and American culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo JimaChapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968)Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley’s and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our FathersChapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore’s The Green Berets (1965)Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014)Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford’s The Short-TimersChapter Seven: The Hero’s Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Hasford’s Counter-attackCoda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future

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Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture

Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II

AvAgnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

549 kr

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Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-23
Mått:154 x 218 x 19 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793634979

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Recensioner i media

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Chapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo JimaChapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968)Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley’s and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our FathersChapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore’s The Green Berets (1965)Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014)Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford’s The Short-TimersChapter Seven: The Hero’s Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Hasford’s Counter-attackCoda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future