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Informationen zum Autor Allison, Tanine Klappentext In the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically. Zusammenfassung Traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games like Call of Duty. Allison locates some of video games' glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Retrospective Look at the World War II Combat Genre 1 "No Faking Here": The New Authenticity of Wartime Combat Documentaries 2 The "Good War"? Style and Space in 1940s Combat Films 3 Rationalizing War: Reconstructions of World War II During the Cold War and Vietnam 4 Nostalgia for Combat: World War II at the End of Cinema 5 Simulating War on an Algorithmic Playground Conclusion: A Bad War? The World War II Combat Genre Now Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
