Heroism and Gender in War Films

Preface; Anna Froula Introduction; Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Jakub Kazecki PART I: HISTORICAL LEADERS AND CELEBRITIES: THEIR ROLE IN MYTHMAKING IN THE CINEMA 1. Mary Pickford's WWI Patriotism: A Feminine Approach to Wartime Mythical Americanness; Clémentine Tholas-Disset 2. The Reluctant Hero: Negotiating War Memory with Modern-Day Myths in Passchendaele (2008); Janis L. Goldie 3. A Hero or a Villain, a Terrorist or a Liberator? The Filmic Representations of Gavrilo Princip since the Late 1960s; Tara Karajica PART II: HOLLYWOOD'S WAR MYTHS IN THE 1940S AND 1950S 4. No Women! Only Brothers: Propaganda, Studio Politics, and The Fighting 69th (1940); Rochelle Sara Miller 5. The Postwar Anxiety of the American Pin-up: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); Lesley C. Pleasant PART III: IDEOLOGIES, NATIONALITY, AND WAR MEMORY 6. Germany's Heroic Victims: The Cinematic Redemption of the Wehrmacht Soldier on the Eastern Fronter; Brian E. Crim 7. Balls and Bullets: A People's Humor as an Aesthetic Stratagem in Golpe de Estadio (1998); Claudia Aburto Guzmán 8. From Saviors to Rapists: G.I.s, Women, and Children in Korean War Films; Hye Seung Chung PART IV: MEN, WOMEN, AND TRAUMA: HEROES AND ANTI-HEROES 9. "I Don't Know How She Lives with this Kitchen the Way It Is:" Military Heroism, Gender, and Race in Brothers (2004 and 2009); Debra White-Stanley 10. The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008); Janet S. Robinson 11. Rebel Tributes and Tyrannical Regimes: Myth and Spectacle in The Hunger Games (2010); Jessica Wells 12. Mulan (1998) and Hua Mulan (2009): National Myth and Trans-Cultural Intertextuality; Jinhua Li PART V: HISTORICAL REALITY, AUTHENTICITY OF EXPERIENCE, AND CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION 13. 'What Shall the History Books Read?' Quentin Tarantino's Basterdized Histories and Corporeal Inscriptions; Tiel Lundy 14. There's Something About Maya: On Being/Becoming a Heroine and the 'War on Terror'; Charles-Antoine Courcoux