No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad.

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Author Patricia Keeton: Patricia Keeton is Associate Professor of Communications in the School of Contemporary Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. Author Peter Scheckner: Peter Scheckner is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.

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PART I: EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN WARE CINEMA AND MEDIA SINCE VIETNAM Introduction: American War Cinema and Media Since Vietnam: Politics, Ideology, and Class 1. The Worker as Warrior: Social Class and Political Betrayal in Literature from Homer to Heller 2. Resurrecting the Good War 3. Culture Wars and War: Gender, Race and Class 4. The Role of Media: From the Manufacture of Consent to the Manufacture of Dissent PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKERS AS WARRIORS IN CONTEMPORARY WAR CINEMA AND MEDIA 5. Class and Politics: Contemporary American War Films and First Person Shooter Video War Games 6. Ideological Negotiation in the Combat Film 7. The Returning Veteran and the Home Front Melodrama 8. Iraq and Afghanistan War Films: Where Is the Ruling Class? 9. Alternative Media and Representations of War PART III: APPENDICES Master List of Films since 1973 (Alphabetical by Title with Release Date) Chronology by Year: Historical Events and Relevant Films and Media