Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780819566232
Pub Date: 15 May 2003
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 38 illus.
Description:
One of America's most renowned film scholars, Jeanine Basinger, offers a revealing, perceptive and highly readable look at the combat film. Discussing over one thousand movies, Basinger covers in-depth the key examples of the genre and uses them to define the meaning of genre itself. From "Bataan" to "Battleground" to "The Dirty Dozen" to "Saving Private Ryan," the book traces the evolution of the combat genre, as its recurring characters, plots and events are used and reused over time.