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This is one of the most important books in media studies in many years. Squarely confronting the collusion among the US government, war industries, and culture industries, the authors authoritatively analyze films, television programs, and video games about the imperialist wars of the last twenty-five years, revealing their ideological work and ideological contradictions. Most radical is their courage in raising the issue of class that academic identity politics since Reagan have almost entirely repressed. This book should be central in all academic curricula from high school to graduate school - David E. James, Professor, University of Southern California, USA and author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam offers an original and challenging view of media's role in producing and sustaining a war machine and the popular mentality that supports it. This innovative study resets the way we will think about war in US culture and politics in the future. - Chuck Kleinhans, Co-editor of JUMP CUT: A Review of Contemporary Media The authors offer a fresh perspective on the most compelling issues of war and its representations. They delineate the links that tie twentieth century techniques of war imaging to twenty-first century computer-based visual technologies. Questioning war's brutality and the consequences to those who fight, they shine a spotlight on the forces at work in creating a world at war. This well-informed savvy contribution is a must-read in an age of conflict and media power. - Robin Andersen, author of A Century of Media, A Century of War

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Author Patricia Keeton: Patricia Keeton is Associate Professor of Communications in the School of Contemporary Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. Author Peter Scheckner: Peter Scheckner is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.

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