The defeated and the dead : teaching about war through film

"How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all social studies classrooms across the US-- Practically every American teenager has seen at leas...

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Main Author Pearcy, Mark, 1970- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
SeriesHollywood or history?
Subjects
War films > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States.
War films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures in education > United States.
United States > History, Military > Study and teaching (Secondary) > Audio-visual aids.
History > Wars & Conflicts > General.
Teaching of a specific subject.
Military history.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806600526
DOI10.1108/9798887307145
Physical Description1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • War films : what (and who) are they for?
  • The history of the war film
  • Just war doctrine
  • Glory
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Platoon and Born on the fourth of July
  • The clip approach : Lincoln, The conspirator, War horse, Fury, Flags of our fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima, Zero dark thirty
  • Movies about modern war
  • Conclusion : "We're not here for right and wrong. We're here to kill them."

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