Add to ORKGI explore nationalism within popular United States' history and analyze the nationalistic rhetoric within a popular novel, film, television documentary, and computer game that use the Battle of Gettysburg as their subject. With these examples I argue that popular history and entertainment cultivate social conditions amenable to war. Rather than strictly focusing on overtly and officially sanctioned political arguments, I interrogate recurring defenses of United States' nationalism within popular history and entertainment using the concepts of sociological propaganda and collective memory to further my argument. By focusing on popular representations of a seminal event in United States' history, I contend that such an event has been used to ...
Over the past few decades, the image of war and the U.S. military in popular entertainment has waxed...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, no...
This dissertation critiques popular culture texts of war and warriors as cultural symptoms in order ...
In a paper delivered in April at the 30th annual conference of the Popular Cultural Association, Dav...
The topic of this paper will be patriotic media (specifically American blockbuster movies) that prop...
Americans are often accused of not appreciating history, but this charge belies the real popular int...
Media productions have often turned to history as a source for a narrative. Wars have been refought,...
Picturing the Civil War Gary W. Gallagher has done his fair share of shaping what historians kn...
Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghaziexamines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country’s mi...
From contract to devotion New study analyzes contributing factors in development of nationalism Th...
This project examines the role of professional musicians, stage performers, civilian entertainment o...
Popular culture in relation to World War II has been explored by various scholars over the years. Th...
Social representations of the historical past, anchored in historical experience and cultural values...
The video game industry has been growing rapidly in the recent years, reaching almost 2 billion play...
Over the past few decades, the image of war and the U.S. military in popular entertainment has waxed...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, no...
This dissertation critiques popular culture texts of war and warriors as cultural symptoms in order ...
In a paper delivered in April at the 30th annual conference of the Popular Cultural Association, Dav...
The topic of this paper will be patriotic media (specifically American blockbuster movies) that prop...
Americans are often accused of not appreciating history, but this charge belies the real popular int...
Media productions have often turned to history as a source for a narrative. Wars have been refought,...
Picturing the Civil War Gary W. Gallagher has done his fair share of shaping what historians kn...
Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghaziexamines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country’s mi...
From contract to devotion New study analyzes contributing factors in development of nationalism Th...
This project examines the role of professional musicians, stage performers, civilian entertainment o...
Popular culture in relation to World War II has been explored by various scholars over the years. Th...
Social representations of the historical past, anchored in historical experience and cultural values...
The video game industry has been growing rapidly in the recent years, reaching almost 2 billion play...
Over the past few decades, the image of war and the U.S. military in popular entertainment has waxed...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, no...