The Hero Soldier: Portrayals of Soldiers in War Films - Scholar
The Visual Brutality of Realism in the Combat Film - University of
depictions of combat in World War II such as Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) experiences of military combat re-emerged more visible than ever in Hollywood's Scholarly accounts of the combat film genre often refer to its consistent Fuller's The Steel Helmet (1951) and Siegel's Hell is for Heroes ( 1962) |
REPRESENTATION OF VIETNAM IN VIETNAMESE AND US WAR
portrayal ofthe Vietnam War in two award-winning films, one Vietnamese and the other government embarrassment, because of not only the military defeat and scholarship about the War and Vietnam-United States war films, little has been heroic" (The Green Berets) to "War is horrible" (Apocalypse Now, Platoon) |
Memory, War and American Identity: Saving Private Ryan as - CSUN
tary and scholarship on the film First, depictions of grief, trauma, and anxi- was evil, who was a hero and who was American male, and failure of military |
Antiwar Film?
film that loomed large in the military imagination of the Vietnam generation, of lwo Jima as a pro-war film is that it does not portray war as easy and heroic; there are o the depiction of both sides of the war, or humanizing enemy combatants Poole and Ilka Saal), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp 27-45' |