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Combat Films:

American Realism, 1945 - 2010
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McFarland, 2011 - Performing Arts - 302 pages
Combat films have long been a staple in the history of American cinema. This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews, archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films that are considered unusually realistic for the genre. The original edition covered war films through World War II, while the updated version includes seven new chapters, which address the Civil War, the American gunboat presence in China in the 1920s, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the fighting in Mogadishu in 1993 and the war in Iraq. Coverage goes through The Hurt Locker (2009).
  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Filming History Not Heroics
5
The Thin Red Line
69
The New Heroes
149
War Films in the 21st Century
221
Chapter Notes
279
Bibliography
287
Index
291
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About the author (2011)

Steven Jay Rubin, the author of several books about film, is a motion picture producer based in Los Angeles.

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