Reel Men At War

Author : Ralph Donald,Karen MacDonald
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810881150

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Reel Men at War by Ralph Donald,Karen MacDonald Pdf

As they transition into adulthood, many American boys and young men spend a considerable amount of time engaging in physical sports, playing violent video games, and watching action movies, including war films. In many cases, boys spend more time exposed to media models than they do with their fathers. If, as social learning theorists say, masculinity is learned directly through a system of positive and negative reinforcement, what manly behaviors do war films clearly define and reinforce? And what un-manly behaviors do war films clearly prohibit? In Reel Men at War: Masculinity and the American War Film, authors Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald consider the influence that war films bring to bear on the socialization of young boys in America. Analyzing nearly 150 American war films and television programs, this book considers such issues as major male stereotypes—both positive and negative—in film, the influence of sports as an alternate to mortal combat, why men admire war and value winning so highly, and how war films define manly courage. Throughout the book the authors comment on the depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder, the stages of grief, and suicide in war films, as well as applying Jungian and Freudian theories to war and soldiering. Reel Men at War will be of interest not only to professors and students of cinema and mass communications but also to scholars of history, gender studies, and sociology.

Author : Clémentine Tholas,Janis L. Goldie,Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030230968

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New Perspectives on the War Film by Clémentine Tholas,Janis L. Goldie,Karen A. Ritzenhoff Pdf

New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media. The authors concentrate on the untold narratives of those who fought in combat and were affected by its brutal consequences. Chapters discuss the historically under-represented stories of individuals including women, African-American and Indigenous Soldiers. Issues of homosexuality and gender relations in the military, colonial subjects and child soldiers, as well as the changing nature of war via terrorism and bioterrorism are closely analyzed. The contributors demonstrate how these viewpoints have been consistently ignored in mainstream, blockbuster war sagas and strive to re-integrate these lost perspectives into current and future narratives.

Author : Ralph Donald,Karen MacDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442234475

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Women in War Films by Ralph Donald,Karen MacDonald Pdf

War has been depicted in cinema for more than a century, from early silent films to more recent blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and Lone Survivor. Most war films, especially combat films, are about men engaged in battle. But while Hollywood has reinforced the cultural stereotype of war as a man’s job, women have not been completely invisible in many of these films, whether waiting for their men to return home or standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts on the battlefield. In Women in War Films: From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane, Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald examine the representations of females in war throughout the history of film. They identify various types of women portrayed in these films, from home-front wives and daughters supporting their loved ones from afar to nurses and doctors stationed near the front lines of combat. The authors also look at depictions of foreign females who comfort homesick soldiers, ordinary women who unexpectedly encounter the enemy, female spies, and modern enlistees taking on roles traditionally reserved for men. Through these representations, the authors explore what war films say about the culture that created them and the social construction of reality that these films assert. The book covers an array of war films distributed in the United States, including Hearts of the World, Wings, Mata Hari, Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, Cry “Havoc,”Since You Went Away, The Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, The Americanization of Emily, M*A*S*H, Coming Home, Courage under Fire, G.I. Jane, and Zero Dark Thirty. Featuring an extensive filmography, Women in War Films will appeal to scholars of gender studies, history, and film, as well as to readers interested in the evolving portrayals of females in military-related cinema.

Author : Ann-Dorte Christensen,Palle Rasmussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315406404

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Masculinity, War and Violence by Ann-Dorte Christensen,Palle Rasmussen Pdf

Addressing the relationship between masculinity, war, and violence, this book covers these themes broadly and across different disciplines. These analyses are located at different levels: public policies at the macro level; resistance and independence movements at the meso level; and masculine subjectivities, processes of mobilization, and radicalization at the micro level. The ten contributions encompass four recurring themes: violent masculinities and how contemporary societies and regimes cope with traditional violent rituals and extreme violence against women; popular written and visual fiction about war and masculine rationalities; gender relations in social movements of rebellion and national transformation; and masculinity in civil society under conditions of war and post-war. Taking into account different geographical contexts, the book emphasizes the relationship between the local and the global as well as the importance of understanding gender and masculinity in their intersectional interrelations with religion, race, ethnicity, class, and locality. This book was originally published as a special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.

Author : Jon Saklofske,Alyssa Arbuckle,Jon Bath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000751208

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Feminist War Games? by Jon Saklofske,Alyssa Arbuckle,Jon Bath Pdf

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist values can be asserted as interventional approaches to the design, play, and analysis of games that focus on armed conflict and economies of violence. Focusing on the ways that games, both digital and table-top, can function as narratives, arguments, methods, and instruments of research, the volume demonstrates the impact of computing technologies on our perceptions, ideologies, and actions. Exploring the compatibility between feminist values and systems of war through games is a unique way to pose destabilizing questions, solutions, and approaches; to prototype alternative narratives; and to challenge current idealizations and assumptions. Positing that feminist values can be asserted as a critical method of design, as an ideological design influence, and as a lens that determines how designers and players interact with and within arenas of war, the book addresses the persistence and brutality of war and issues surrounding violence in games, whilst also considering the place and purpose of video games in our cultural moment. Feminist War Games? is a timely volume that questions the often-toxic nature of online and gaming cultures. As such, the book will appeal to a broad variety of disciplinary interests, including sociology, education, psychology, literature, history, politics, game studies, digital humanities, media and cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as those interested in playing, or designing, socially engaged games.

Author : Jim Belushi
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401383060

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Real Men Don't Apologize by Jim Belushi Pdf

In this "guys guide to life," the star of the hit TV show According to Jim talks about how men can continue to be real men while still managing to make things work with the opposite sex. Jim Belushi is a national celebrity who has starred in numerous movies as well as the current hit TV show airing on ABC, According to Jim. His "guy's guy" take on things led to a huge following among both men and women who cant get enough of Jim and his irrepressible take on life. Now he's sharing his unique perspective with a funny new book about dating, marriage, and sex that is sure to hit home with every redblooded American male and the women who love them. Any guy will relate to Belushi's self-discovered advice from the school of hard knocks. In character with his TV show, Belushi has strong opinions on how real men should act, and he relates his ideas with the trademark irreverent humor that has made him famous. Sample chapters from Real Men Dont Apologize! include: How to Be a Man How to Get a Phone Number Boot Camp for Men Sex and the Single Man Over 18 and many more!

Author : Matthew Fox,Senior Lecturer in Classics Matthew Fox
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781458727428

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The Hidden Spirituality of Men by Matthew Fox,Senior Lecturer in Classics Matthew Fox Pdf

IT IS NO SECRET that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world's critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy mascul...

Author : Mikyoung Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135009212

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Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia by Mikyoung Kim Pdf

Decades after the end of the World War II East Asia continues to struggle with lingering animosities and unresolved historical grievances in domestic, bilateral and regional memory landscapes. China, Japan and the Korea share a history of inter- and intra-violence, self-other identity construction and diametrically opposed interpretations of the past. Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia offers a complete overview of the challenges of national memory and ideological rivalry for reconciliation in the East Asian region. Chapters provide authoritative analyses of contentious issues such as comfort women, the Nanjing massacre, history textbook controversies, shared heritage sites, colonial rule, territorial disputes and restitution. By interweaving memory, human rights and reconciliation the contributors actively explore real prospects of redressing past wrongs and achieving peaceful coexistence at personal as well as governmental levels. Bringing together an international team of experts, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of East Asian studies, anthropology, gender studies, history, international relations, law, political science, and sociology, and for those interested in memory and reconciliation issues.

Author : Michael Daxner,Marion Näser-Lather,Silvia Nicola
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527522350

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Conflict Veterans by Michael Daxner,Marion Näser-Lather,Silvia Nicola Pdf

Returnees from wars and violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. In an age of asymmetric warfare and highly ambiguous profiles of combat, the veterans’ position is changing and is less clear than in the past. Veterans are either marginalized or considered a social and political precarity; their self-perception and identity are often burdened with uncertain return into their societies. This volume brings together experts on veteran studies from various academic disciplines. Their views present a variety of sociological, anthropological, and military aspects on the lives and environments of contemporary veteran cultures. Based on findings from the first contemporary congress on returnees from diverse wars and interventions held in Germany in July 2016, the contributions here compare the situations of veterans and their perception by society in different countries. The main focus falls on the so far under-researched German “particular path” into the normalcy of producing and then having veterans who, as a new, emerging social group, start to build up their own associations and culture, and gain political and socio-cultural power of interpretation. This process forms a contrast to those veteran cultures that can build on long and seemingly less broken traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458727473

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The Hidden Spirituality of Men by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Catriona McAvoy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442253544

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Selling Sex on Screen by Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Catriona McAvoy Pdf

Whether in mainstream or independent films, depictions of female prostitution and promiscuity are complicated by their intersection with male fantasies. In such films, issues of exploitation, fidelity, and profitability are often introduced into the narrative, where sex and power become commodities traded between men and women. In Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn, Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy have assembled essays that explore the representation of women and sexual transactions in film and television. Included in these discussions are the films Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Eyes Wide Shut, L.A. Confidential, Pandora’s Box, and Shame and such programs as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gigolos. By exploring the themes of class differences and female economic independence, the chapters go beyond textual analysis and consider politics, censorship, social trends, laws, race, and technology, as well as sexual and gender stereotypes. By exploring this complex subject, Selling Sex on Screen offers a spectrum of representations of desire and sexuality through the moving image. This volume will be of interest not only to students and scholars of film but also researchers in gender studies, women’s studies, criminology, sociology, film studies, adaptation studies, and popular culture.

Author : Hal Young,Melanie Young
Publisher : Great Waters Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780984144303

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Raising Real Men by Hal Young,Melanie Young Pdf

Families with boys often find the world reacts to them in mock horror. Even though parents love their sons, privately they admit that boys can be a handful to raise--they are boisterous, competitive, reckless, distractable. The challenge of wills between parent and son starts early, and the quest to civilize young bulls may seem hopeless some days. Yet believers know that God has given them children as a gift of heaven, specially chosen for their particular families and marked as a blessing. If that's so, why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when it's all we can do to make it through another day? Isn't there a better way? Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys shows the answer is emphatically yes. Written by the parents of six boys, Raising Real Men provides hope and encouragement to families with sons. Starting from the premise that God made boys to become men, Hal and Melanie Young offer Biblical principles and tested, practical ideas for training the manly virtues that can drive parents and teachers up the wall. This is a practical guide to equipping the hearts and minds of boys without breaking or losing your own. "...earthy, realistic, humorous, and scriptural ..." -- Douglas Wilson, author, Future Men "This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character." -- John Rosemond, author, Parenting By The Book

Author : United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
ISBN : UOM:39015007384590

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The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War by United States. Surgeon-General's Office Pdf

Author : Linsey Robb,Juliette Pattinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349952908

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Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War by Linsey Robb,Juliette Pattinson Pdf

This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as civilian workers. It examines male identities, roles and representations in the armed forces, with particular focus on the RAF, army, volunteers for dangerous duties and prisoners of war, and on the home front, with case studies of reserved occupations and Bletchley Park, and examines the ways such roles have been remembered in post-war years in memoirs, film and memorials. As such this analysis of previously underexplored male experiences makes a major contribution to the historiography of Britain in the Second World War, as well as to socio-cultural history, cultural studies and gender studies.

Author : United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131443223

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Municipal Sanitation Under War Conditions by United States. Office of Civilian Defense Pdf