Heroism and Gender in War Films 2014th Edition by Karen A Ritzenhoff ISBN 113736453X 9781137364531

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ISBN 10: 113736453X 

ISBN 13: 9781137364531

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Historical Leaders and Celebrities: Their Role in Mythmaking in the Cinema

2. Mary Pickford’s WWI Patriotism

3. The Reluctant Hero

4. A Hero or a Villain, a Terrorist or a Liberator?

5. Hollywood’s War Myths in the 1940s and 1950s

6. No Women! Only Brothers

7. The Postwar Anxiety of the American Pin-Up

8. Ideologies, Nationality, and War Memory

9. Germany’s Heroic Victims

10. Balls and Bullets

11. From Saviors to Rapists

12. Men, Women, and Trauma: Heroes and Anti-Heroes

13. “I Don’t Know How She Lives with This Kitchen the Way It Is”

14. The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)

15. Rebel Tributes and Tyrannical Regimes

16. Mulan (1998) and Hua Mulan (2009)

17. Historical Reality, Authenticity of Experience, and Cinematic Representation

18. “What Shall the History Books Read?” Historical Reality, Authenticity of Experience, and Cinematic Representation

19. There’s Something about Maya

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