New Perspectives on the War Film

Foreword; Michael HammondIntroduction; Clémentine Tholas-Disset, Janis Goldie, and Karen A. RitzenhoffSection I. Children and Warfare1. Walking Across the Bloodlands: Children and War in Surviving with Wolves by Véra Belmont (2007) and Lore by Cate Shortland (2013); Jakub Kazecki2. Rebelle Rebel: Child Soldiers, Neo-Colonialism and Gender in Narratives of War; Janis L. Goldie3. The Child as Target: (Un)Ethical Modern Warfare, Journalism and Terrorism; Karen A. RitzenhoffII. Challenging Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in the War Film 4. Shoulder Arms (1918), What Price Glory (1926), Wings (1927): Homosexuality and Gender Representations in Silent WWI Films; Clémentine Tholas-Disset5. Women and Nation in Films of the Great War: "How I wish I were a man, to help drive back those Germans."; Thomas Saunders6. "So long as they are maintaining a bona fide family relationship in the home": Women in WWII American Government Documentaries; Zachary Baqué7. Gender and Homecoming in Iraq War Films; Marianne Kac-VergneSection III. Reclaiming Sovereignty and Empathy in the War Film8. The Other Fights Back: Indigenizing the War Film; Jennifer l. Gauthier9. Saved from the Fire: Haunted Lives and War Memories in Vietnamese Cinema; Thong Win10. Black Skin, White Faces: Dead Presidents, Gangs, and the African-American Vietnam Veteran; Kathleen McClancy11. Avanti Popolo: Israeli Filmmaker Rafi Bukaee and the ordinary Egyptian Soldier at the End of the Six-Day War; Yael MunkSection IV. New Faces of War and Terror12. Sisters in Arms: Epic Narratives in The Baader Meinhof Complex and United Army; Elena Caoduro13. The New Face of Fear: How Pandemics and Terrorism Reinvent Terror (and  Heroes) in the Twenty-First Century; Dahlia Schweitzer