War and American Popular Culture

Autorentext
M. PAUL HOLSINGER is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is also the founder of the World War II area of the Popular Culture Association and organizes annual sessions about that war and its cultural representations. He has authored and edited a number of works about America's wars and popular culture, including Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture (1992) and The Ways of War: The Era of World War II in Children's and Young Adult Fiction (1995).

Klappentext
Spanning more than 400 years of America's past, this book brings together, for the first time, entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on significant representations in popular culture, it provides information on fiction, drama, poems, songs, film and television, art, memorials, photographs, documentaries, and cartoons. From the colonial wars before 1775 to our 1997 peacekeeper role in Bosnia, the work briefly explores the historical background of each war period, enabling the reader to place the almost 500 entries into their proper context.

The book includes particularly large sections dealing with the popular culture of the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Indian Wars West of the Mississippi, World War II, and Vietnam. It has been designed to be a useful reference tool for anyone interested in America's many wars, to provide answers, to teach, to inspire, and most of all, to be enjoyed.

Zusammenfassung
This is a collection of entries on the ways Americans have mythologized their wars, and people connected with them. Focusing on representations in popular culture, it provides information on fiction, drama, poems, songs, film, television, art, memorials, photographs, documentaries and cartoons.

Inhalt
Preface Colonial American Wars, 1565-1765 The American Revolution The War of 1812 Indian Wars East of the Mississippi, 1783-1845 The Texas Revolution and the War with Mexico, 1836-1848 The Civil War Indian Wars West of Mississippi, 1862-1890 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection World War I and the 1920s World War II The Korean War The War in Vietnam The United States Military since 1975 Index

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