Bøger i War Culture serien
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- The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
363,95 - 1.383,95 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.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- 258,95 kr.
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298,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
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298,95 - 1.398,95 kr. - Bog
- 298,95 kr.
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- The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
343,95 kr. - Bog
- 343,95 kr.
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- 253,95 kr.
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- Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
398,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
- 398,95 kr.
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298,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
- 298,95 kr.
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- 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.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- From the Good War to the Forever War
373,95 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.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
408,95 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.
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- 408,95 kr.
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- The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
1.393,95 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.
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- 1.393,95 kr.
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- Race, Nation, and War
353,95 - 1.383,95 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.
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- 353,95 kr.
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333,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
- 333,95 kr.
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- Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
333,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
- 333,95 kr.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
318,95 - 953,95 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.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- World War II in American Film and Media
363,95 - 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.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
353,95 - 1.383,95 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.
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- 353,95 kr.
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- Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
363,95 - 1.393,95 kr. - Bog
- 363,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 353,95 kr.
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- 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.
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- 1.388,95 kr.
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- 273,95 kr.