FROM
“SHELL SHOCK” TO “POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME”: WOUNDED WARRIORS AND VETERANS
(Heroes for
Sale, Heroes, Coming Home, Rambo: First Blood; The Deer Hunter, Born on the 4th of July)
HOME FRONT (SUPPORTING THE TROOPS, FROM VICTORY GARDENS, SCRAP
DRIVES, STARS IN WINDOWS TO YELLOW RIBBON MAGNETS):
(Since You
Went Away)
WOMEN AND WAR WORK
(World War
II Home Front, Cry ‘Havoc!’, What So Proudly We Hail, Meet The People, Women in Defense, etc.)
REPRESENTING THE “RAPE
OF BELGIUM” (WWI) IN PRINT AND FILM:
(Yankee Doodle in Berlin, The
Heart of Humanity, etc.)
W. R. HEARST AND THE SELLING OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
(A Message
to Garcia)
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS FROM WWI TO THE PRESENT
(All Quiet
on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, Coming Home, FTA, Johnny Got His Gun, etc.)
WAR PROPAGANDA IN POSTCARDS, POSTERS, AND MOTION PICTURES
WAR DRAMAS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE "GRUNTS"
(Platoon, The Boys in Comoany
C, Full Metal Jacket)
WAR DOCUMENTARIES
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE "GRUNTS"
(Anderson Platoon, Restrepo, Combat Diary)
“WAR IS HELL” FILMS
(Guadalcanal
Diary, Pork Chop Hill, Hamburger Hill, Men In War, The Story of G.I. Joe)
WOMEN WARRIORS
(She Goes to War, Courage Under Fire)
THE USO AND TROOP MORALE
(Yankee Doodle
Dandy, Hollywood Canteen, Four Jills in a Jeep, This Is the Army, FTA)
RACE, RACISM, AND WAR SERVICE FROM THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR TO
THE PRESENT
(The Negro Soldier, Tuskegee Airmen, A Soldier’s Story, The
Steel Helmet, Pork Chop Hill, Red Tails)
P.O.W. WAR DRAMAS
(Prisoner
of War, The Rack, Time Limit, Missing in Action, Rescue Dawn)
WAR PROFITEERS, MEN BEHAVING BADLY:
(The Dirty
Dozen, Kelly’s Heroes, Catch 22, The Three Kings)
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
WAR-TIME ATROCITIES
(One Minute
to Zero, Platoon, Casualties of War, Redacted, etc.)
THE SERIOUS ART OF COMEDY IN WAR
(The Great
Dictator, Hot Shots: Part Deux, etc.)
WHICH WAR IS THIS, ANYWAYS?
(Little Big
Man, Soldier Blue, Catch 22, M*A*S*H, Johnny Got His Gun)
COMPARING/CONTRASTING DEMOCRATIC AND TOTALITARIAN WAR FILMS
“OCCUPIED TERRITORIES” IN FILM AND PRINT PROPAGANDA
(Edge of Darkness)
SATIRIZING/VILIFYING ENEMY LEADERS IN FILM AND PRINT PROPAGANDA
(Yankee Doodle in Berlin, My Four Years in Germany, The Great Dictator,
Enemy of Women, etc.)
CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE/ CHILDREN AND WAR PROPAGANDA
(Der Fuehrer’s Face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAXHM5LBRY,
Daffy-the Commando: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW789GNMsws,
Take Heed Mr. Tojo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30BIPYL-JU
Private SNAFU “Gripes”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmJCu8mJV8
Private SNAFU “Spies”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYOCZCeqcs&feature=related
