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Destructive Sublime
Tanine Allison
其他書名
World War II in American Film and Media
出版
Rutgers University Press
, 2018-06-25
主題
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Historical
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Social Science / Media Studies
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
ISBN
0813597528
9780813597522
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=phBeDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.