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Guy Westwell Knihy

    Parallel Lines
    War Cinema - Hollywood on the Front Line

    • War Cinema - Hollywood on the Front Line

      3,6(10)Ohodnotit

      An introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a linchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre, one of continuing significance, from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to We Were Soldiers (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in particular on representations of the Vietnam War ( Apocalypse Now [1979], Rambo [1985] and Platoon [1986]) and the more recent return to and reexamination of the Second World War ( Saving Private Ryan [1998]).

      War Cinema - Hollywood on the Front Line

    • Parallel Lines

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.--Page 4 of cover.

      Parallel Lines