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In this book, World War II veterans compare their wartime experiences-as soldiers, pilots, "code talkers," and prisoners of war-to on-screen portrayals of the war in Hollywood films. In addition, two women-real life "Rosie the Riveters"--Compare depictions of women and the home …
In this book, World War II veterans compare their wartime experiences-as soldiers, pilots, "code talkers," and prisoners of war-to on-screen portrayals of the war in Hollywood films. In addition, two women-real life "Rosie the Riveters"--Compare depictions of women and the home …
In the digital age, art has become readily reproducible and widely accessible due to creativity-based advancements such as big-budget filmmaking and quick-sharing methods of dispersing information through social media platforms. As the current generation relies more heavily on d…
Media and culture are interrelated, which shapes what is culturally relevant. War films reflect a culture's view on war as well as the viability of a culture's mythology of war. Grounded in the concepts of war myth and genre, this thesis takes the stance that the Iraq and Afghan…
This project uses the rhetorical concept of strategic ambiguity to analyze how U.S. war films from 2006 through 2011 framed the politics of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I argue that, rather than presenting partisan propaganda or apolitical drama, these films purposeful…
Examining rhetorical constructions that resist the dehumanization and alienation of others into enemies should improve our ability to articulate alternatives to war. Accordingly, this dissertation focuses on identifying humanizing constructions of soldiers and enemies that resis…
This thesis examines examples of character archetypes in films of modern war. War films throughout the history of the genre have relied on a particular characterization of the American soldier/warrior to garner support for various war efforts, and to create and maintain a myth o…
In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats&;an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and war is actually as old as film i…