Brad Prager is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of the Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

Brad Prager’s book is an illuminating look at [The Deer Hunter]’s critical reception and its significance in the war film genre, while examining its realism and comparing it to other depictions of US-led military intervention. It’s a cracking read that puts the film in a new light, which in itself is fascinating as the film is just five years away from its big 50th anniversary … [The Deer Hunter] deserves a spot on any enthusiast’s bookshelf

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Realism and Truth2. Mountains and Fog3. “There’s Rats in Here”4. Coming Home 5. “God Bless America”ConclusionNotesCreditsBibliography

Brad Prager is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of the Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

Brad Prager’s book is an illuminating look at [The Deer Hunter]’s critical reception and its significance in the war film genre, while examining its realism and comparing it to other depictions of US-led military intervention. It’s a cracking read that puts the film in a new light, which in itself is fascinating as the film is just five years away from its big 50th anniversary … [The Deer Hunter] deserves a spot on any enthusiast’s bookshelf

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Realism and Truth2. Mountains and Fog3. “There’s Rats in Here”4. Coming Home 5. “God Bless America”ConclusionNotesCreditsBibliography

Brad Prager is Professor of Film at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of the Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

Brad Prager’s book is an illuminating look at [The Deer Hunter]’s critical reception and its significance in the war film genre, while examining its realism and comparing it to other depictions of US-led military intervention. It’s a cracking read that puts the film in a new light, which in itself is fascinating as the film is just five years away from its big 50th anniversary … [The Deer Hunter] deserves a spot on any enthusiast’s bookshelf

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Realism and Truth2. Mountains and Fog3. “There’s Rats in Here”4. Coming Home 5. “God Bless America”ConclusionNotesCreditsBibliography