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Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

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Description:Combat Death in Contemporary American Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II. To get started finding Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Combat Death in Contemporary American Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II. To get started finding Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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