This dissertation analyzes the late 1990s US remembrance of World War II utilizing Alison Landsberg’s (2004) concept of prosthetic memory. Building upon previous scholarship regarding World War II and memory (Beidler, 1998; Wood, 2006; Bodnar, 2010; Ramsay, 2015), this dissertation analyzes key works including Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Greatest Generation (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Medal of Honor (1999), Band of Brothers (2001), Call of Duty (2003), and The Pacific (2010) in order to better understand the version of World War II promulgated by Stephen E. Ambrose, Tom Brokaw, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks. Arguing that this time period and its World War II representations are more than merely a continuation of wartime propagan...
International audienceWhen it comes to questions of memory and identity, the underlying arguments ar...
In this thesis, I argue that twenty-first century American war films are constructed in dialogue wit...
The present dissertation revisits the Cold War on film from the official start of the conflict with ...
“Beyond the Battlefield: Direct and Prosthetic Memory of the American War in Viet Nam” examines shif...
Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of lead...
This dissertation interrogates the meanings retrospectively imposed upon World War II in U.S. motion...
This paper assesses the explanatory possibilities of the concept of prosthetic memory, with cinema ...
Conceiving of the visual as a significant force in the production and dissemination of collective me...
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in r...
The purpose of this research project is to explore how the memory of World War II has changed betwee...
Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping o...
In my dissertation, I argue that trauma and cultural memory operate together to create the defining ...
“Tell me about the war”—these words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wif...
This thesis explores America’s national war memorial projects, including the Vietnam Veterans Memori...
This thesis examines the way in which World War II combat films and television series have shaped Br...
International audienceWhen it comes to questions of memory and identity, the underlying arguments ar...
In this thesis, I argue that twenty-first century American war films are constructed in dialogue wit...
The present dissertation revisits the Cold War on film from the official start of the conflict with ...
“Beyond the Battlefield: Direct and Prosthetic Memory of the American War in Viet Nam” examines shif...
Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of lead...
This dissertation interrogates the meanings retrospectively imposed upon World War II in U.S. motion...
This paper assesses the explanatory possibilities of the concept of prosthetic memory, with cinema ...
Conceiving of the visual as a significant force in the production and dissemination of collective me...
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in r...
The purpose of this research project is to explore how the memory of World War II has changed betwee...
Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping o...
In my dissertation, I argue that trauma and cultural memory operate together to create the defining ...
“Tell me about the war”—these words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wif...
This thesis explores America’s national war memorial projects, including the Vietnam Veterans Memori...
This thesis examines the way in which World War II combat films and television series have shaped Br...
International audienceWhen it comes to questions of memory and identity, the underlying arguments ar...
In this thesis, I argue that twenty-first century American war films are constructed in dialogue wit...
The present dissertation revisits the Cold War on film from the official start of the conflict with ...