Destructive Sublime World War II in American Film and Media

Destructive Sublime World War II in American Film and Media

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The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the "good war," fought by the "greatest generation" for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular...

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1. Verfasser: Allison, Tanine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:War Culture
Schlagworte:
Geschichte
American
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor
Saving Private Ryan
The Battle of San Pietro
The Longest Day
WWII.
World War II.
combat
destructive
film
media
sublime
video games
war film
war
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Computer war games
War films > United States > History and criticism
World War, 1939-1945 > Mass media and the war
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war
Zweiter Weltkrieg > Motiv
Computerspiel
Film
USA
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Zusammenfassung:The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the "good war," fought by the "greatest generation" for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular violence. Combat sequences, Tanine Allison argues, construct a counter-narrative of World War II by reminding viewers of the war’s harsh brutality. Destructive Sublime traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games like Call of Duty. 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. In a series of case studies spanning more than seventy years—from wartime documentaries like The Battle of San Pietro to fictional reenactments like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan to combat video games like Medal of Honor—this book reveals how the genre’s aesthetic forms reflect (and influence) how American culture conceives of war, nation, and representation itself
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 11 color, 30 b-w
ISBN:9780813597522

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