Hollywood and War: The Film Reader explores how the relationship between war and mass cinema has reflected and shaped wide-ranging changes in American life from the late 19th century to today.
Edited by J. David Slocum, an associate dean at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science, the collection of more than 20 essays includes analyses of "war cinema" - the convergence of Hollywood productions, military activity, and everyday life - from World Wars I and II, and Korea to Vietnam and recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Iraq. In the volume's final essay, "A Cultural History of War Without End," Melani McAlister, an associate professor of American studies at George Washington University, explores how the Iran hostage crisis helped spur the "development of the new hyper-violent action films, which promised military action without the constraints of public debate." Slocum, who teaches in the Cinema Studies Department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, has also edited Terrorism, Media, Liberation
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