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Race, War, and the Cinematic Myth of America
Dust That Never Settles
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2022
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In this book, Eric Trenkamp addresses a question that many American cinema fans may have asked themselves over the past 20 years – “why is everything superheroes now?” Although it might be easy to dismiss Hollywood’s last two decades of comic book movies as nothing more than overly simplified morality tales, the reality is much more complex. The pervasiveness of the comic book genre throughout American culture, Trenkamp argues, perpetuates a subtextual myth about what it means to be an “American” in the contemporary world. At the core of this myth is the image of who Hollywood considers to be the ideal American hero – the White male savior. This book explores the evolution of this ever-changing image of White superiority in American cinema, which can be traced from the earliest silent Westerns, through decades of war films, and up to the modern day comic book genre. Through provocative and engaging analysis of a wide variety of Hollywood films, Trenkamp demonstrates the industry’s history of popularizing White supremacy and the ways in which these films can act as propaganda to support various dehumanizing U.S. policies, both abroad and at home. Scholars of film studies, comic studies, genre studies, American studies, race studies, pop culture, and history will find this book particularly useful.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4750-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4751-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
165
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Author’s Note No access
1 From Spurs To Capes No access Pages 1 - 8
2 A Myth of America No access Pages 9 - 30
3 The Myth Made Flesh No access Pages 31 - 44
4 The Segregationist Blockbusters No access Pages 45 - 64
5 The New Western Frontier No access Pages 65 - 84
6 Birth of a Genre No access Pages 85 - 100
7 The Post–September 11 Comic Book Movie No access Pages 101 - 126
8 Theories of Conspiracy No access Pages 127 - 142
9 World War without End No access Pages 143 - 146
Appendix A No access Pages 147 - 148
Appendix B No access Pages 149 - 150
Appendix C No access Pages 151 - 152
Appendix D No access Pages 153 - 154
Bibliography No access Pages 155 - 160
Index No access Pages 161 - 164
About the Author No access Pages 165 - 165
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