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1st Edition

Hollywood Remembrance and American War

Edited By Andrew Rayment, Paul Nadasdy Copyright 2021
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist... Read more

1. Hollywood Remembrance and American War

Andrew Rayment

2. Their War, Our War: Private Memory and Public Commemoration in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Cortland Rankin

3. Lions for Lambs: Ambivalent Memorialization and Melodrama

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

4. Hysterical Colonels and Kernels: Apocalypse Now Redux and Ápres Coup Remembering

Andrew Rayment

5. Dr. Strangelove: MAD Clowns and Phantom Memorialization

Andrew Rayment, Ywain Tomos and Paul Nadasdy

6. "A Quiet Day at the Front": Realism as an Act of Memorialization in Cease Fire

Cortland Rankin

7. The Thin Red Line: The Hero’s Desire to be More Realized

Paul Nadasdy and Andrew Rayment

8. The Abyss of the "Other": Wounded Memory and the Negative Exception in Letters from Iwo Jima

Christopher J. Ramsbottom-Isherwood

9. The Living Memorial: War Horse and the Horse Crux

Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy

Afterword

Luke Thurston

Biography

Andrew Rayment is Associate Professor of Anglophone Culture at Chiba University, Japan. His research explores the intersection between popular genres of literature / film and ideology within a psychoanalytical paradigm. He is the author of Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity: Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and Stories of the Eye.

Paul Nadasdy is Associate Professor and Lecturer of English at Tokyo Denki University, Japan. He is the author of several academic papers relating to a range of topics within the fields of linguistics and film studies.

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