The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war.
An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural difficulty of acknowledging their defeat and understanding its manifold meanings.
This book draws on psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, and corporeal feminism to explore the bodily experience of defeat. It examines themes and representations of body and sexuality to create a theoretical framework that reveals anew the link between defeated masculinity and nationalism. Building on an original analysis of such varied films as The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, The Tin Drum, and Paris Texas, the author suggests new criteria that highlight the characteristics of post-traumatic cinema.
Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history Ten new articles which consider recently released films, as well as issues of gender and ethnicity Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film Fourth edition includes completely new images throughout.
This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.
So that the full and diverse narrative of this complex nation might be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints that are the text of America's story.
Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the contemporary workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history. Explores contemporary American films that challenge official history. Our movies have started talking back to us, and Film Nation takes a close look at what they have to say. Dancing In The Dark Hungry Heart Cadillac Ranch Because The Night Pink Cadillac Rosalita Come Out Tonight.
Born To Run Bobby Jean Two Hearts Ramrod It's no coincidence that 'Born in The U. Kennedy to join the marines to the traumatic wartime injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down to his emergence as an outspoken anti-war activist.
The anniversary edition features a foreword by Bruce Springsteen. His experiences overseas, as well as the terrible way he was treated when he came back, made Kovic's book one of the antiwar movement's most celebrated works. His book tells his story. Many of the book's themes are echoed in Springsteen's hit song, 'Born in the U.
This New York Times best seller more than one million copies sold , presented here in a special fortieth-anniversary edition with a brand-new foreword by Bruce Springsteen, details the author's life story portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film --from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti—Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
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