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      American Militarism on the Small Screen book

      Edited ByAnna Froula, Stacy Takacs
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 4 April 2016
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682341
      Pages 298
      eBook ISBN 9781315682341
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Froula, A., & Takacs, S. (Eds.). (2016). American Militarism on the Small Screen (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682341

      ABSTRACT

      Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA

      Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction: Living Room Wars

      ByANNA FROULA, STACY TAKACS

      part |2 pages

      PART I: World War II on the Small Screen

      chapter 1|13 pages

      “Bilko’s Bombers”: Anti-Militarism in the Era of the “New Look”

      ByLISA M. MUNDEY

      chapter 2|16 pages

      The Long Fight: Combat! and the Generic Development of the TV War Drama Series

      ByDAVID P. PIERSON

      chapter 3|17 pages

      12 O’Clock High and the Image of American Air Power, 1946–1967

      BySAM EDWARDS

      chapter 4|14 pages

      Nervous Laughter: Hogan’s Heroes and the Vietnam War

      ByROBERT R. SHANDLEY

      chapter 5|16 pages

      Baa Baa Black Sheep and the Last Stand of the WWII drama

      ByA. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER

      chapter 6|16 pages

      A Waltz with and for the Greatest Generation: Music in Band of Brothers (2001)

      ByTODD DECKER

      part |2 pages

      PART II: Korea and Vietnam on the Small Screen

      chapter 7|18 pages

      The American Forces Korea Network: “Bringing Troops a Touch of Home”

      BySUEYOUNG PARK-PRIMIANO

      chapter 8|15 pages

      “Everybody Here Is Crazy”: Images of the Disabled on Television’s M*A*S*H

      ByKELLY J.W. BROWN

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Drinking the War Away: Televisual Insobriety and the Meanings of Alcohol in M*A*S*H

      ByDAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Small-Screen Insurgency: Entertainment Television, the Vietnamese Revolution, and the Cold War, 1953–1967

      BySCOTT LADERMAN

      chapter 11|15 pages

      China Beach and the Good Series Death

      ByCHRISTINE BECKER

      part |2 pages

      PART III: Contemporary Conflicts on the Small Screen

      chapter 12|16 pages

      Imagining the New Military of the 1990s in Babylon 5’s Future Wars

      ByKATHLEEN KENNEDY

      chapter 13|17 pages

      JAG, Melodrama, and Militarism

      BySTACY TAKACS

      chapter 14|17 pages

      Political Amnesia Over Here and Imperial Spectacle Over There

      ByANNA FROULA

      chapter 15|16 pages

      Generation Kill and the New Screen Combat

      ByMAGDALENA YÜKSEL AND COLLEEN KENNEDY-KARPAT

      chapter 16|14 pages

      “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and Its Repeal in Showtime’s The L Word and Lifetime’s Army Wives

      ByLIORA ELIAS
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