Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.
Please read the tutorial at this link. https://ebooknice.com/page/post?id=faq
We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.
For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.
EbookNice Team
Status:
Available4.4
14 reviews
ISBN 10: 1137360720
ISBN 13: 9781137360724
Author: Karen A Ritzenhoff
Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts, support political agendas and institutions, and influence collective memory.
Part I Historical Leaders and Celebrities: Their Role in Mythmaking in the Cinema
1 Mary Pickford’s WWI Patriotism: A Feminine Approach to Wartime Mythical Americanness
2 The Reluctant Hero: Negotiating War Memory with Modern-Day Myths in Passchendaele (2008)
3 A Hero or a Villain, a Terrorist or a Liberator? The Filmic Representations of Gavrilo Princip since the Late 1960s
Part II Hollywood’s War Myths in the 1940s and 1950s
4 No Women! Only Brothers: Propaganda, Studio Politics, Warner Bros., and The Fighting 69th (1940)
5 The Postwar Anxiety of the American Pin-Up: William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Part III Ideologies, Nationality, and War Memory
6 Germany’s Heroic Victims: The Cinematic Redemption of the Wehrmacht Soldier on the Eastern Front
7 Balls and Bullets: A People’s Humor as an Aesthetic Stratagem in Golpe de Estadio (1998)
8 From Saviors to Rapists: G.I.s, Women, and Children in Korean War Films
Part IV Men, Women, and Trauma: Heroes and Anti-Heroes
9 “I Don’t Know How She Lives with This Kitchen the Way It Is”: Military Heroism, Gender, and Race in Brothers (2004 and 2009)
10 The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)
11 Rebel Tributes and Tyrannical Regimes: Myth and Spectacle in The Hunger Games (2012)
12 Mulan (1998) and Hua Mulan (2009): National Myth and Trans-Cultural Intertextuality
Part V Historical Reality, Authenticity of Experience, and Cinematic Representation
13 “What Shall the History Books Read?” Quentin Tarantino’s Basterdized Histories and Corporeal Inscriptions
14 There’s Something about Maya: On Being/Becoming a Heroine and the “War on Terror”
heroism and gender in war films
heroism and gender
heroism in war films
books on heroism
the heroes of world war ii
heroism book
Tags: Karen A Ritzenhoff, Heroism, Gender
4.6
12 reviews
4.7
9 reviews
5.0
29 reviews
4.6
36 reviews