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Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a “war on terror,” among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember about those conflicts still comes from Hollywood depictions.
In War on the Silver Screen, Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen vividly demonstrate how war movies have burned the images and impressions of those wars onto the American psyche more concretely than has the reality of the wars themselves. That is, our feelings about wars are generated less by what we learn through study and discourse than by powerful cinematic images and dialogue. Films are compressed, intense, and immediate, and often a collective experience rather than a solitary one. Actors and drama provide the visceral impact necessary to form perceptions of history that are much more enduring than those generated by other media or experiences.
Drawing on more than a century of war films and history, War on the Silver Screen examines the legacy of American war cinema on twentieth- and twenty-first-century attitudes about war.
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Glen Jeansonne is a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of numerous books, including The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Transformatin and Reaction: America, 1921-1945 (Waveland, 2006).
David Luhrssen is the Arts & Entertainment Editor at Shepherd Express and has worked as a film critic for more than twenty years. He is the author of several books, most recently Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism (Potomac, 2012) and Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen (Kentucky, 2012).
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