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Unguarded Border - American Émigrés In Canada During The Vietnam War

by Donald W. Maxwell

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 Unguarded BorderÂ tells the stories of the 50,000 Americans who fled across the border to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, permanently changing perceptions of military service, nation, and citizenship.
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In The Crossfire Of History - Women''S War Resistance Discourse In The Global South

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 A collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, womenâ€™s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
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German Ways Of War - The Affective Geographies And Generic Transformations Of German War Films

by Jaimey Fisher

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 <i>German Ways of War</i> deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, <i>German Ways of War</i> addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun - this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, <i>German Ways of War</i> explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre’s manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films’ "affective geographies" that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes.<br>
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War Without Bodies - Framing Death From The Crimean To The Iraq War

by Martin Danahay

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 Traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army, to the first of three â€˜video warsâ€™ in the Gulf region in 1990 to 1991, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organised violence acceptable to a wider public.
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American Girl Goes To War - Women And National Identity In U.S. Silent Film

by Liz Clarke

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 The representation of American martial spirit - particularly in the form of heroines - has a rich history in film in the years just prior to the American entry into World War I. The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war from 1908 to 1919.
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Cyberwars In The Middle East

by Ahmed Al-Rawi

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 Argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions or horizontally. This book is the first of its kind to shine a light on many ways that governments and hackers are perpetrating cyber attacks in the Middle East and beyond, and to show the ripple effect of these attacks.
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American War Stories

by Brenda M. Boyle

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 Asks readers to contemplate what traditionally constitutes a â€œwar storyâ€ and how that constitution obscures the normalization of militarism in American culture. The book claims the traditionally narrow scope of â€œwar storyâ€ compartmentalizes war, casting armed violence as distinct from everyday American life.
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Unmanning - How Humans, Machines And Media Perform Drone Warfare

by Katherine Chandler

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 Studies the conditions that create contemporary unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes from 1936-1992. Rather than primarily treat the drone through the War on Terror, this book instead shows how the assembled parts of drone aircraft prefigure targeted killing well before these events.
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Intervention Narratives - Afghanistan, The United States, And The Global War On Terror

by Purnima Bose

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 Examines the contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that help to justify an imperial foreign policy. An indictment of US policy, Bose demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates on an ideologically diverse cultural terrain to enlist support for the war across the political spectrum.
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Postfeminist War - Women In The Media-Military-Industrial Complex

by Mary Douglas Vavrus

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 Considers two important questions: how the construction of gender, race, and class in media are productive of rÃ©gimes of truth regarding war and military life, and how such constructions may also intensify militarism.
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Imperial Affects - Sensational Melodrama And The Attractions Of American Cinema

by Jonna Eagle

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 Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an American national subject constituted as both victimized and invincible-a powerful and persistent conjunction traced here across a century of cinema.
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In/Visible War - The Culture Of War In Twenty-First-Century America

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 Addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that ""America"" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture.
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Hollywood'S Hawaii - Race, Nation, And War

by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett

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 Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present. Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett highlights films that mirror the cultural and political climate of the country over more than a century-from the era of U.S. imperialism on through Jim Crow racial segregation, the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII, the civil rights movement, the contemporary articulation of consumer and leisure culture, as well as the buildup of the modern military industrial complex. Focusing on important cultural questions pertaining to race, nationhood, and war, Konzett offers a unique view of Hollywood film history produced about the national periphery for mainland U.S. audiences. Hollywood's Hawaii presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representations in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.
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Torture Porn In The Wake Of 9/11 - Horror, Exploitation, And The Cinema Of Sensation

by Aaron Michael Kerner

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 <div><i>Saw</i>, <i>Hostel</i>, <i>The Devil’s Rejects</i>: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label "torture porn." Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. In this timely new study, Aaron Kerner challenges that interpretation, arguing that "torture porn" must be understood in a much broader context, as part of a phenomenon that spans multiple media genres and is rooted in a long tradition of American violence. <br> </div> <div><i>Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11</i> tackles a series of tough philosophical, historical, and aesthetic questions: What does it mean to call a film "sadistic," and how has this term been used to shut down critical debate? In what sense does torture porn respond to current events, and in what ways does it draw from much older tropes? How has torture porn been influenced by earlier horror film cycles, from slasher movies to J-horror? And in what ways has the torture porn aesthetic gone mainstream, popping up in everything from the television thriller <i>Dexter</i> to the reality show <i>Hell’s Kitchen</i>? <br> </div> <div>Reflecting a deep knowledge and appreciation for the genre, <i>Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11</i> is sure to resonate with horror fans. Yet Kerner’s arguments should also strike a chord in anyone with an interest in the history of American violence and its current and future ramifications for the War on Terror. <br> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>
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War Is Not A Game - The New Antiwar Soldiers And The Movement They Built

by Nan Levinson

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 Tells the story of the new soldiers' antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in discussion of the military and wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals behind the movement, painting an portrait of these working-class veterans who refused to be seen as tragic victims or battlefront heroes.
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Crash Course - From The Good War To The Forever War

by H. Bruce Franklin

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 <div>Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what he learned was eye-opening. He saw that even as the U.S. preached about peace and freedom, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe.<br> <br> Now, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. <i>Crash Course</i> is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America’s foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements.<br> <br> More than just a memoir or a history book, <i>Crash Course</i> gives readers a unique firsthand look at the building of the American empire and the damage it has wrought. Shocking and gripping as any thriller, it exposes the endless deception of the American public, and reveals from inside how and why many millions of Americans have been struggling for decades against our own government in a fight for peace and justice. </div>
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Warring Over Valor - How Race And Gender Shaped American Military Heroism In The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries

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 By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers two major insights into the history of military heroism. First, it reveals a precarious ambiguity in the efforts of minorities such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, women, and gay men to be recognized as heroic soldiers. Paradoxically, America's heroism discourse allowed them to press their case for full membership in the nation, but doing so simultaneously validated the dichotomous interpretations of race and gender they repudiated. The ambiguous role of marginalized groups in war-related hero-making processes also testifies to this volume's second general insight: the durability and tenacity of the masculine warrior hero in U.S. society and culture. Warring over Valor bridges a gap in the historiography of heroism and military affairs.
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Destructive Sublime - World War Ii In American Film And Media

by Tanine Allison

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 The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the "good war," fought by the "greatest generation" for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular violence. Combat sequences, Tanine Allison argues, construct a counter-narrative of World War II by reminding viewers of the war's harsh brutality. Destructive Sublime traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games like Call of Duty. Allison locates some of video games' glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre. In a series of case studies spanning more than seventy years-from wartime documentaries like The Battle of San Pietro to fictional reenactments like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan to combat video games like Medal of Honor-this book reveals how the genre's aesthetic forms reflect (and influence) how American culture conceives of war, nation, and representation itself.
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Through The Crosshairs - War, Visual Culture, And The Weaponized Gaze

by Roger Stahl

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 Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper's gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions? Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of this weapon's-eye view across a wide range of genres.
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At War - The Military And American Culture In The Twentieth Century And Beyond

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 Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the US military and why and how US wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.
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Looking Back On The Vietnam War - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

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 More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war's legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war's psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.
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Other Air Force - U.S. Efforts To Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11

by Matt Sienkiewicz

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 Winner of the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern media producers who rely on these funds are hardly puppets on an American string, but instead contribute their own political and creative agendas while working within U.S. restrictions. The Other Air Force gives readers a unique inside look at television and radio production in Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, from the isolated villages of the Afghan Panjshir Valley to the congested streets of Ramallah. Communications scholar Matt Sienkiewicz explores how the U.S. takes a "soft-psy" approach to its media efforts combining "soft" methods of encouraging entertainment programming, such as adaptations of The Voice and The Apprentice with more militaristic "psy-ops" approaches to information control. Drawing from years of field research and interviews with everyone from millionaire executives to underpaid but ever resourceful cameramen, Sienkiewicz considers the perspectives of the Afghan and Palestinian media workers trying to forge viable broadcasting businesses without straying outside American-set boundaries for acceptable content. As it carefully examines the interplay of U.S. military and economic might with the capacity for local ingenuity and resistance, the book also analyzes the intriguingly complex programming that emerges from this tension. Combining eyewitness reportage with cutting-edge scholarship, The Other Air Force reveals the remarkable creative output that can emerge even from the world's tensest conflict zones.
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Torture Porn In The Wake Of 9/11 - Horror, Exploitation, And The Cinema Of Sensation

by Aaron Michael Kerner

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 Saw, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects: this wave of horror movies have been classed as "torture porn". Critics have speculated that these movies reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. Aaron Kerner challenges that interpretation, arguing that "torture porn" must be understood in a much broader context, as part of a phenomenon that spans multiple media genres and is rooted in a long tradition of American violence.
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Looking Back On The Vietnam War - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

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 Brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam War's psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange.
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