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Destructive sublime : World War II in American film and media / Tanine Allison.

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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 spect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allison, Tanine, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:War culture.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Mass media and the war.
War films > United States > History and criticism.
War video games.
World War (1939-1945)
Computer war games.
Mass media and war.
War and motion pictures.
War films.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A retrospective look at the World War II combat genre
  • "No faking here": The new authenticity of wartime combat documentaries
  • The "good war"? Style and space in 1940s combat films
  • Rationalizing war: Reconstructions of World War II during the Cold War and Vietnam
  • Nostalgia for combat: World War II at the end of cinema
  • Simulating war on an algorithmic playground
  • Conclusion: A bad war? The World War II combat genre now.

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