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  • - The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
    af Nina Berman
    368,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that ""America"" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture.

  • af Lava Asaad, Farzana Akhter, Margaret Hageman, mfl.
    298,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
    af Jaimey Fisher
    343,95 kr.

  • - Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
    af Martin Danahay
    253,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
    af Aaron Michael Kerner
    398,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • af Ahmed Al-Rawi
    298,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
     
    343,95 kr.

    By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.

  • - From the Good War to the Forever War
    af H. Bruce Franklin
    378,95 kr.

    In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.

  • - The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
     
    413,95 kr.

    Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the US military and why and how US wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.

  • - The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
     
    1.398,95 kr.

    Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the US military and why and how US wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.

  • - Race, Nation, and War
    af Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
    353,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the US national imagination. Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present.

  • af Brenda M. Boyle
    333,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
    af Purnima Bose
    333,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare
    af Katherine Chandler
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
    af Mary Douglas Vavrus
    323,95 - 963,95 kr.

    Considers two important questions: how the construction of gender, race, and class in media are productive of regimes of truth regarding war and military life, and how such constructions may also intensify militarism.

  • - World War II in American Film and Media
    af Tanine Allison
    368,95 - 1.383,95 kr.

    Traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games. Tanine Allison locates some of video games' glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre.

  • - War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
    af Roger Stahl
    353,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper's gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions? Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of this weapon's-eye view across a wide range of genres.

  • - Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
    af Jonna Eagle
    368,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
    af Matt Sienkiewicz
    353,95 kr.

  • - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
     
    1.388,95 kr.

    Brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam War's psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange.

  • - The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
    af Nan Levinson
    278,95 - 1.279,95 kr.