Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction 1Douglas A. Cunningham
1 “Hearing” the Music in War Films 6Robert Eberwein
2 Antilochus’s Burden: The Crisis–Catharsis Rhetoric of Bereavement Messages 20David Ryan
3 War Films in an Age of War and Cinema 36John Garofolo
4 Exploring War Horror’s Narrative Punch in Spielberg’s Munich and Saving Private Ryan 56Sandra Singer
5 The Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal Jacket 71Matthew Sorrento
6 The Wartime American Woman on Film: Home-Front Soldier 89Jeanine Basinger
7 “Conspiracy of Silence”: The Containment of Military Women in World War II Newsreels and Short Films 106Anna Froula
8 Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory 129Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman
9 The Gendered Remembrance of Japanese-American Internment: Come See the Paradise and Snow Falling on Cedars 150Yuki Obayashi
10 “The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor”: Representing Nurses in the Pacific Theater 163Debra White-Stanley
11 In the Exigency of a National Cause: Bollywood’s Responses to the Kargil War 180Kaustav Bakshi and Ramit Samaddar
12 Transnational Algerian War Cinema Revisited: Comic Relief in Merzak Allouache’s Bab el-Oued City and Bab el-Oued 198Christa C. Jones
13 Fifty Years Hence: The Forgotten War Remembered in South Korean and American Cinema 214John Nelson
14 Dresden (2006): Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States 234Linda Robertson
15 How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science-Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film 253Tanine Allison
16 Making Citizens out of Soldiers: Rearming the Individual in Paul May’s 08/15 271Mark Gagnon
17 Those at Home Also Serve: Women’s Television and Embedded Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 2006–2014) 289Mary Elizabeth Haralovich
18 Generation Kill: The Invasion of Iraq As Seen on HBO 305Deborah L. Jaramillo
19 “TiK ToK on the Clock, but the Party Don’t Stop, No”: The Parodic Military Dance Video on YouTube 320Leah Shafer
20 Kuwaiting for Godot: The Absurd Theatre of War in Jarhead 338Cason Murphy
21 The Meaning of the Soldier: In the Year of the Pig and Hearts and Minds 356Laura Browder
22 Why We (Shouldn’t) Fight: The Double-Optic of the War Documentary 371Kris Fallon
23 A War for Everyone: Strategic Ambiguity in the Home-Front War Drama 385Dan Hassoun
24 Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film? 404Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
25 Through a Soldier’s Eyes: Stereoscopic Gazing in Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 422Kelly Wilz
Index 445