Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

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. Such cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813553970
• ISBN13: 9780813553979
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary