Reinventing World War II

Auteur

Barbara A. Biesecker is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change and coeditor of Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics.

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Explores how World War II was retooled in popular culture starting in the mid 1980s to redress a crisis in American identity and restore social equilibrium.