
Imagining America at War
Ten films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and what it means to be an American.
Tracing the portrayal of America in the films Pearl Harbor (World War II); We Were Soldiers and The Quiet American (the Vietnam War); Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Down and Kandahar (episodes of humanitarian intervention); Collateral Damage and In the Bedroom (vengea...
Ten films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and what it means to be an American.
Tracing the portrayal of America in the films Pearl Harbor (World War II); We Were Soldiers and The Quiet American (the Vietnam War); Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Down and Kandahar (episodes of humanitarian intervention); Collateral Damage and In the Bedroom (vengea...