Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture

by Jon Robert Adams

Book Overview

There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature--one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in From Here to Eternity. In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America's late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927536
• ISBN13: 9780813927534
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary