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THE HOLLYWOOD WAR MACHINE U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture By Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction Ch. 1 -- Militarism in American Popular Culture Patriotism as Secular Religion Gun Culture and Civic Violence The Warrior Legacy and Patriarchy Corporate Media: Reservoir of Militarism Ch. 2 -- War and Cinema: the Historical Legacy Hollywood Mobilizes for Combat The Western as Combat Genre The Myth of the Good War Cold War and Popular Culture Ch. 3 --The Vietnam Debacle: Politics and Cinema Innocence, Defeat, Tragedy Post-Vietnam Traumas Robert McNamara and the Fog of History Ch. 4 -- Recycling the Good War World War II ? Again, and Again Hollywood: War and Nostalgia The Spectacle of War Pearl Harbor: Escape from History Ch. 5 -- Cinematic Warfare in the New World Order Iraq: from Spectacle to Chaos New Rules of Engagement Terrorism and Hollywood Disguised Military Films Ch. 6 ? Pentagon Strategy, Technowar, and Media Culture Empire the Movie Hollywood and the Pentagon Technowar and Media Culture The Limits of Technowar Filmography: Selected Combat Movies
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
War films -- United States -- History and criticism.
War and society -- United States.
Militarism -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.