Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

1. Embodiment and Pathos in the War Film: The Hurt Locker

2. Waiting for Terror: Zero Dark Thirty

3. Intimate Violence: Drone Vision in Eye in the Sky

4. War as Revelation: A Private War

5. Four Elegies of War: Restrepo,Infidel,Into the Korengal, and Sleeping Soldiers-single screen

6. American Pastoral / American Sniper

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Robert Burgoyne is author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition (Minnesota, 2010).

Reviews

"Robert Burgoyne offers here an essential reckoning with the changing affective contours of war representation in the twenty-first century. Eloquent and probing in equal measure, he invites us to confront the cinema’s emergent grammars of violence in the context of a forever war both intimate and remote, asking what is left-and what is possible-when the collective fiction of redemptive violence no longer coheres." -Jonna Eagle, author of Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema   "Robert Burgoyne’s perceptive and engaging new volume provides a roadmap to the contemporary war film in light of the changed nature of conflict today. He illuminates how American culture comes to grips with the impact of endless wars and new geopolitical landscapes, showing how traditional narratives surrounding heroism, military technology, and victimhood have broken down. The New American War Film offers a vital new history of war and media today." -Tanine Allison, author of Destructive Sublime: World War II in American Film and Media