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Eastwood's Iwo Jima : critical engagements with Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima / edited by Rikke Schubart & Anne Gjelsvik.

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Eastwood's Iwo Jima : critical engagements with Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima / edited by Rikke Schubart & Anne Gjelsvik.
Publication
London : Wallflower Press, c2013.

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  • Schubart, Rikke
  • Gjelsvik, Anne.
  • Gjelsvik, Anne
Description
xii, 281 p : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Together, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Eastwood, Clint, 1930-
  • Rosenthal, Leo, 1884-1969
  • Eastwood, Clint, 1930- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (Motion picture)
  • Flags of our fathers (Motion picture)
  • War films > History and criticism
  • Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
  • Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 > History
  • War films > United States
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war
Note
  • Together, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Know your enemy, know yourself / Rikke Schubart & Anne Gjelsvik -- The making and remakings of an American icon : 'Raising the flag on Iwo Jima' from photojournalism to global, digital media / Mette Mortensen -- The forgotten cinematographer of Mount Suribachi : Bill Genaust's eight-second Iwo Jima footage and the historical facsimile / Bjørn Sørenssen -- Flags of their stepfathers? Race and culture in the context of military service and the fight for citizenship / Martin Edwin Andersen -- Following the flag in American film / Robert Eberwein -- Care or glory? Picturing a new war hero / Anne Gjelsvik -- Beyond mimesis : war, history, and memory in Flags of our fathers / Holger Pötzsch -- Clint Eastwood's postclassical multiple narratives of Iwo Jima / Glenn Man -- Haunting in the war film : Flags of our fathers / Robert Burgoyne -- Eastwood and the enemy / Rikke Schubart -- East of Eastwood : Iwo Jima and the Japanese context / Lars-Martin Sørensen -- Humanism versus patriotism : Eastwood trapped in the bi-polar logic of warfare / Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg -- Suicide in Letters from Iwo Jima / Robert Burgoyne -- To sell a war : flags, lies, and tragedy / Vibeke Schou Tjalve -- Banzai! : Letters from Iwo Jima and choosing the enemy in risk society / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen.
ISBN
  • 023116565X
  • 9780231165655 (pbk.)
  • 0231165641
  • 9780231165648
OCLC
824657518
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library