War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line / Edition 1

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 (1930) to (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in particular on representations of the Vietnam War ( [1979], [1985] and [1986]) and the more recent return to and reexamination of the Second World War ( [1998]).