Companion to the War Film

Douglas A. Cunningham is Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University and Adjunct Professor of Literature and Film Studies at Westminster College, USA. He is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and taught literature and film at the U.S. Air Force Academy for five years of his 20-year military career. He earned a Ph.D. in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. He is the editor of The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration (2011), and his essays have appeared in Screen, CineAction, The Moving Image, and Critical Survey. He is currently at work on a monograph titled, Celluloid Airmen: World War II, Hollywood, and the Army Air Force’s First Motion Picture Unit.John Nelson is an Academy Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He earned a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. He has published book chapters on Nobel laureate Derek Walcott’s play Pantomime and the use of landscape in contemporary military memoirs. He has taught courses on literature, composition, film, and cultural criticism at West Point for over ten years.

• Contributors viiIntroduction 1Douglas A. Cunningham1 “Hearing” the Music in War Films 6Robert Eberwein2 Antilochus’s Burden: The Crisis–Catharsis Rhetoric of Bereavement Messages 20David Ryan3 War Films in an Age of War and Cinema 36John Garofolo4 Exploring War Horror’s Narrative Punch in Spielberg’s Munich and Saving Private Ryan 56Sandra Singer5 The Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal Jacket 71Matthew Sorrento6 The Wartime American Woman on Film: Home-Front Soldier 89Jeanine Basinger7 “Conspiracy of Silence”: The Containment of Military Women in World War II Newsreels and Short Films 106Anna Froula8 Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory 129Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman9 The Gendered Remembrance of Japanese]American Internment: Come See the Paradise and Snow Falling on Cedars 150Yuki Obayashi10 “The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor”: Representing Nurses in the Pacific Theater 163Debra White-Stanley11 In the Exigency of a National Cause: Bollywood’s Responses to the Kargil War 180Kaustav Bakshi and Ramit Samaddar12 Transnational Algerian War Cinema Revisited: Comic Relief in Merzak Allouache’s Bab el-Oued City and Bab el-Oued 198Christa C. Jones13 Fifty Years Hence: The Forgotten War Remembered in South Korean and American Cinema 214John Nelson14 Dresden (2006): Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States 234Linda Robertson15 How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science-Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film 253Tanine Allison16 Making Citizens out of Soldiers: Rearming the Individual in Paul May’s 08/15 271Mark Gagnon17 Those at Home Also Serve: Women’s Television and Embedded Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 2006–2014) 289Mary Elizabeth Haralovich18 Generation Kill: The Invasion of Iraq As Seen on HBO 305Deborah L. Jaramillo19 “TiK ToK on the Clock, but the Party Don’t Stop, No”: The Parodic Military Dance Video on YouTube 320Leah Shafer20 Kuwaiting for Godot: The Absurd Theatre of War in Jarhead 338Cason Murphy21 The Meaning of the Soldier: In the Year of the Pig and Hearts and Minds 356Laura Browder22 Why We (Shouldn’t) Fight: The Double-Optic of the War Documentary 371Kris Fallon23 A War for Everyone: Strategic Ambiguity in the Home-Front War Drama 385Dan Hassoun24 Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film? 404Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet25 Through a Soldier’s Eyes: Stereoscopic Gazing in Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 422Kelly WilzIndex 445

"A very worthy piece of work, which presents new, up-to-date, challenging and refreshing views on the war film genre."—Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews, Vol 31, No 5, 2017