Every New Day by Lauren Brooke
Considering selected films representing three periods in history - World Wars I and I and their interim, the Vietnam War, and the major conflicts in the Middle East - The Hollywood War Film reflects on Hollywood's representations of war and conflict, in order to map some cinematic discourses therein. This results in an understanding of the Hollywood genre not just as a categorising tool, but rather as a dynamic, inscriptive, iterative cultural phenomenon. Broadly, the thesis of the book is twofold: Firstly, that there are commonalities in Hollywood films representing distinct conflicts and eras, and that recent war films more closely echo early war films in terms of their nationalistic and idealistic perspectives. Secondly, the work proposes a reconfiguring of genre as less concrete and classificatory, and more dynamic and iterative. In doing so, The Hollywood War Film analyses some of the most important war films from the past century, including All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and The Hurt Locker (2009).Lauren Brooke is the best-selling author of the Heartland trilogy. Heartland, Rainbow Magic, and Warriors are just a few of the bestselling series created by Working Partners.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780439317160 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439317169 |
| Title | Every New Day |
| Author | Lauren Brooke |
| Series | Heartland Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scholastic US |
| Year published | 2002-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 148 |
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