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Historical leaders and celebrities: their role in mythmaking in the cinema. Mary Pickford's WWI patriotism: a feminine approach to wartime mythical Americanness / Clémentine Tholas-Disset
The reluctant hero: negotiating war memory with modern-day myths in Passchendaele / Janis L. Goldie
A hero or a villain, a terrorist or a liberator? the filmic representations of Gavrilo Princip since the late 1960s / Tara Karajica
Hollywood's war myths in the 1940s and 1950s. No women! only brothers: propaganda, studio politics, Warner Bros., and the fighting 69th (1940) / Rochelle Sara Miller
The postwar anxiety of the American pin-up: William Wyler's The best years of our lives (1946) / Lesley C. Pleasant
Ideologies, nationality, and war memory . Germany's heroic victims: the cinematic redemption of the Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front / Brian E. Crim
Balls and bullets: a people's humor as an aesthetic stratagem in Golpe de estadio (1998) / Claudia Aburto Guzmán
From saviors to rapists: G.I.s, women, and children in Korean war films / Hye Seung Chung
Men, women and trauma: heroes and anti-heroes. I don't know how she lives with this kitchen the way it is: military heroism, gender, and race in Brothers (2004 and 2009) / Debra White-Stanley
The gendered geometry of war in Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Janet S. Robinson
Rebel tributes and tyrannical regimes: myth and spectacle in The hunger games (2012) / Jessica R. Wells
Mulan (1998) and Hua Mulan (2009): national myth and trans-cultural intertextuality / Jinhua Li
Historical reality, authenticity of experience, and cinematic representation. What shall the history books read?" Quentin Tarantino's basterdized histories and corporeal inscriptions / Tiel Lundy
There's something about Maya: on being/becoming a heroine and the "war on terror" / Charles-Antoine Courcoux.

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Heroism and gender in war films. ISBN 9781137364531. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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