Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed.
Jul 2011 · McFarland
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This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually realistic for the genre. The original edition (1981) covered war films through World War II, while the present, expanded edition includes seven new chapters covering the Civil War, the American gunboat presence in China in the 1920s, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the fighting in Mogadishu in 1993 and the war in Iraq.
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Steven Jay Rubin, the author of several books about film, is a motion picture producer based in Los Angeles.
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