02835oam 2200529I 450 991015512600332120240505170353.01-317-59192-51-315-74437-61-317-59193-310.4324/9781315744377 (CKB)4340000000023881(MiAaPQ)EBC4767117(OCoLC)967739166(EXLCZ)99434000000002388120180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLast stands from the Alamo to Benghazi how Hollywood turns military defeats into moral victories /Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli1st ed.New York :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (161 pages)1-138-81956-5 1-138-81955-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the very thought of losing -- Part I. Do it mean what I think it do? -- The Alamo (1960) -- The Alamo (2004) -- Part II. Are you calling me a liar? -- They died with their boots on (1941) -- Little Big Man(1970) -- Part III. Alamos of the Pacific -- Wake island (1942) -- Bataan (1943) -- Back to Bataan (1943) -- They were expendable (1945) -- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) -- Part IV. Maybe you don't know what we're doing here -- Corregidor (1943) -- Cry, havoc (1943) -- So proudly we hail (1943) -- Part V. The misfortunes of my retreat -- Northwest passage (1940) -- Gung ho (1943) -- Part VI. Planes roaring, voices singing -- Command decision (1948) -- Twelve o'clock high (1949) -- Part VII. Pork Chop is in North Korea now -- The steel helmet (1951) -- Pork Chop Hill (1959) -- Part VIII. Go tell the Americans -- Go tell the Spartans (1978) -- We were soldiers (2002) -- Part IX. Narrowing the aperture -- Black Hawk down (2001) -- Lone survivor (2014) -- 13 hours: the secret soldiers of Benghazi (2016) -- Conclusion: it is here that we lie.Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country's military past.War filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismHistorical filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismMotion pictures and historyWar filmsHistory and criticism.Historical filmsHistory and criticism.Motion pictures and history.791.43/6581791.436581Wetta Frank J.1942-,983062Novelli Martin A983063MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155126003321Last stands from the Alamo to Benghazi2243647UNINA