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18. Cold War Films

  • Jonathan Auerbach
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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature
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© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Illustrations ix
  4. Illustrations acknowledgements x
  5. Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century 1
  6. Part I: Wars and their Literatures
  7. 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War 11
  8. 2. ‘The essentially modern attitude toward war’: English Poetry of the Great War 20
  9. 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction 31
  10. 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel 40
  11. 5. The ‘moaning of the world’ and the ‘words that bring me peace’: Modernism and the First World War 47
  12. 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory 58
  13. 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916–39 64
  14. 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War 75
  15. 9. ‘Lucid Song’: The Poetry of the Second World War 85
  16. 10. American Poets of World War II 94
  17. 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial 101
  18. 12. The Second World War in American Fiction 110
  19. 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 118
  20. 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism 126
  21. 15. Holocaust Film 134
  22. 16. O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War 151
  23. 17. The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam 160
  24. 18. Cold War Films 172
  25. 19. Britain’s Small Wars: Domesticating ‘Emergency’ 181
  26. 20. The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana 190
  27. 21. Vietnam Fictions 205
  28. 22. ‘Will there be peace again?’: American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War 214
  29. 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ 222
  30. 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War 231
  31. 25. ‘An Uneven Killing Field’: British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia 241
  32. 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 251
  33. Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures
  34. Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures 265
  35. 27. War Memorials 269
  36. 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground 277
  37. 29. War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State 285
  38. 30. American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War 294
  39. 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors 304
  40. 32. The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore 317
  41. 33. ‘These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld’: Race in War Literature 326
  42. 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War 334
  43. 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans 341
  44. Part III: Technology
  45. Introduction: Technology 351
  46. 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare 356
  47. 37. Warplane 366
  48. 38. Monsarrat’s Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic 380
  49. 39. Submarine Novels ‘After History’ 388
  50. 40. ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’: Gas Warfare, 1914–18 and the Uses of Affect 396
  51. 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception 406
  52. 42. Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I 413
  53. Part IV: Spaces
  54. Introduction: Spaces 427
  55. 43. The Trenches 431
  56. 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War 439
  57. 45. ‘That fi ghting was a long way off ’: Desert and Jungle War Poems 448
  58. 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War 456
  59. 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground 465
  60. Part V: Genres
  61. Introduction: Genres 475
  62. 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill 479
  63. 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction 490
  64. 50. The Children’s War 498
  65. 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process 508
  66. 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War 516
  67. 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century 524
  68. 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction 536
  69. 55. ‘Play Up and Play the Game!’: The Narrative of War Games 544
  70. 56. War Correspondence 553
  71. 57. Thinking War 562
  72. Notes on contributors 570
  73. Index 577
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748653911-021

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Illustrations ix
  4. Illustrations acknowledgements x
  5. Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century 1
  6. Part I: Wars and their Literatures
  7. 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War 11
  8. 2. ‘The essentially modern attitude toward war’: English Poetry of the Great War 20
  9. 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction 31
  10. 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel 40
  11. 5. The ‘moaning of the world’ and the ‘words that bring me peace’: Modernism and the First World War 47
  12. 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory 58
  13. 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916–39 64
  14. 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War 75
  15. 9. ‘Lucid Song’: The Poetry of the Second World War 85
  16. 10. American Poets of World War II 94
  17. 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial 101
  18. 12. The Second World War in American Fiction 110
  19. 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 118
  20. 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism 126
  21. 15. Holocaust Film 134
  22. 16. O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War 151
  23. 17. The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam 160
  24. 18. Cold War Films 172
  25. 19. Britain’s Small Wars: Domesticating ‘Emergency’ 181
  26. 20. The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana 190
  27. 21. Vietnam Fictions 205
  28. 22. ‘Will there be peace again?’: American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War 214
  29. 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ 222
  30. 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War 231
  31. 25. ‘An Uneven Killing Field’: British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia 241
  32. 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 251
  33. Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures
  34. Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures 265
  35. 27. War Memorials 269
  36. 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground 277
  37. 29. War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State 285
  38. 30. American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War 294
  39. 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors 304
  40. 32. The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore 317
  41. 33. ‘These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld’: Race in War Literature 326
  42. 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War 334
  43. 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans 341
  44. Part III: Technology
  45. Introduction: Technology 351
  46. 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare 356
  47. 37. Warplane 366
  48. 38. Monsarrat’s Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic 380
  49. 39. Submarine Novels ‘After History’ 388
  50. 40. ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’: Gas Warfare, 1914–18 and the Uses of Affect 396
  51. 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception 406
  52. 42. Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I 413
  53. Part IV: Spaces
  54. Introduction: Spaces 427
  55. 43. The Trenches 431
  56. 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War 439
  57. 45. ‘That fi ghting was a long way off ’: Desert and Jungle War Poems 448
  58. 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War 456
  59. 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground 465
  60. Part V: Genres
  61. Introduction: Genres 475
  62. 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill 479
  63. 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction 490
  64. 50. The Children’s War 498
  65. 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process 508
  66. 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War 516
  67. 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century 524
  68. 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction 536
  69. 55. ‘Play Up and Play the Game!’: The Narrative of War Games 544
  70. 56. War Correspondence 553
  71. 57. Thinking War 562
  72. Notes on contributors 570
  73. Index 577
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