Guts and Glory: The American Military Image in Film

摘要

Film and military historian Lawrence H. Suid's updated version of Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film now includes images from the Persian Gulf war and the U.S. intervention in Somalia. Younger readers will be pleased to see that movies such as Black Hawk Down (2002) and Windtalkers (2002) are now included. Suid's chronological approach to his anthology highlights the U.S. military in the vicissitudes of Hollywood imagemaking since the film industry's inception. As such, Guts and Glory is a study in cinematic sociology, with ramifications for political science. The book's content ranges from classic films to lesser-known movies and includes such fantasies as The Final Countdown (1980); smarmy flops, such as Pearl Harbor (2001); the humorous, such as Stripes (1981); assorted millennial and survivalist works; and those that otherwise suffer from "the ambiguity of conflicting images," such as Pork Chop Hill (1959).