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9781442261051 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 18, 2016, cover price $42.00
Product Description: Throughout film history, war films have been in constant dialogue with both previous depictions of war and contemporary debates and technology. War films remember older war film cycles and draw upon the resources of the present day to say something new about the nature of war...read more
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9781137503183 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Throughout film history, war films have been in constant dialogue with both previous depictions of war and contemporary debates and technology.
Product Description: One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolationist movement in the U.S. and a growing hatred of the "Hun," contemporary films were mainly propaganda calling citizens to arms...read more
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9780786498666 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 17, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films.
Product Description: World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone. From training camp scenes in See Here, Private Hargrove to images of brutal combat in Saving Private Ryan, filmmakers have been tasked with replicating pivotal moments in the war...read more
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9781442245556 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 22, 2015, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone.
Product Description: Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a âwar on terror,â among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember about those conflicts comes from Hollywood depictions...read more
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9781612346410 | Potomac Books Inc, October 1, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917.
Product Description: American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess the impact of new visual technologies on the construction of history...read more
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9780415840125 | Routledge, December 18, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris.
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9780786474653 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 4, 2014, cover price $45.00
Product Description: No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad...read more
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9781137277886 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 28, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film.
Product Description: Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate...read more
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9780813553986 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 3, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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9780813553979 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 3, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Product Description: The book explores ways in which combat film scores interact collaboratively with other film elements (for instance, image and dialogue) to guide audience understanding of theme and character. Examined are classical and current models of film scoring practice and the ways they work to represent changes in film narratives taking place over time or from film to film...read more
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9780786463435 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 25, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The book explores ways in which combat film scores interact collaboratively with other film elements (for instance, image and dialogue) to guide audience understanding of theme and character.
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9780786462902 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 7, 2012, cover price $55.00
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9780810881341 | Scarecrow Pr, August 5, 2011, cover price $66.00
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9780810881143 | Scarecrow Pr, April 18, 2011, cover price $55.00
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9781559723831 | Citadel Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a retrospective of nearly one hundred films dealing with the Civil War, including classics and recent films
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