A Companion to the War Film

A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today s digital culture. Includes new works from experienced and emerging scholars that expand the scope of the genre by applying fresh theoretical approaches and archival resources to the study of the war film Moves beyond the limited confines of the combat film to cover home-front films, international and foreign language films, and a range of conflicts and time periods Addresses complex questions of gender, race, forced internment, international terrorism, and war protest in films such as Full Metal Jacket, Good Kill, Grace is Gone, Gran Torino, The Messenger, Snow Falling on Cedars, So Proudly We Hail, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tender Comrade, and Zero Dark Thirty Provides a nuanced vision of war film that brings the genre firmly into the 21st Century and points the way for exciting future scholarship

A Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today's digital culture.* Includes new works from experienced and emerging scholars that expand the scope of the genre by applying fresh theoretical approaches and archival resources to the study of the war film* Moves beyond the limited confines of "the combat film" to cover home-front films, international and foreign language films, and a range of conflicts and time periods* Addresses complex questions of gender, race, forced internment, international terrorism, and war protest in films such as Full Metal Jacket, Good Kill, Grace is Gone, Gran Torino, The Messenger, Snow Falling on Cedars, So Proudly We Hail, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tender Comrade, and Zero Dark Thirty* Provides a nuanced vision of war film that brings the genre firmly into the 21st Century and points the way for exciting future scholarship

Notes on ContributorsIntroduction01 "Hearing" the Music in War FilmsRobert Eberwein02 Antilochus's Burden: The Crisis-Catharsis Rhetoric of Bereavement MessagesDavid Ryan03 War Films in an Age of War and CinemaJohn Garofolo04 Exploring War Horror's Narrative Punch in Spielberg's Munich and Saving Private RyanSandra Singer05 The Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal JacketMatthew Sorrento06 The Wartime American Woman on Film: Home Front SoldierJeanine Basinger07 "Conspiracy of Silence": The Containment of Military Women in World War II Newsreels and Short FilmsAnna Froula08 Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF's Lookout Mountain LaboratoryKevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman09 The Gendered Remembrance of Japanese-American Internment: Come See the Paradise and Snow Falling on CedarsYuki Obayashi10 "The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor": Representing Nurses in the Pacific TheaterDebra White-Stanley11 In the Exigency of a National Cause: Bollywood's Responses to the Kargil WarKaustav Bakshi and Ramit Samaddar12 Transnational Algerian War Cinema Revisited: Comic Relief in Merzak Allouache's Bab el-oued City and Bab el-OuedChrista Jones13 Fifty Years Hence: The Forgotten War Remembered in South Korean and American CinemaJohn Nelson14 Dresden (2006): Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great Britain, and the United StatesLinda R. Robertson15 How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science-Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment FilmTanine Allison16 Making Citizens out of Soldiers: Rearming the Individual in Paul May's 08/15Mark Gagnon17 Those at Home Also Serve: Women's Television and Embedded Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 2006-2014)Mary Elizabeth Haralovich18 Generation Kill: The Invasion of Iraq As Seen on HBODeborah L. Jaramillo19 "TiK ToK on the Clock, but the Party Don't Stop, No": The Parodic Military Dance Video on YouTubeLeah Shafer20 Kuwaiting for Godot: The Absurd Theatre of War in JarheadCason Murphy21 The Meaning of the Soldier: In the Year of the Pig and Hearts and MindsLaura Browder22 Why We (Shouldn't) Fight: The Double-Optic of the War DocumentaryKris Fallon23 A War for Everyone: Strategic Ambiguity in the Homefront War DramaDan Hassoun24 Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film?Agnieszka Soltysik25 Through a Soldier's Eyes: Stereoscopic Gazing in Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime ExperienceKelly WilzIndex