The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust’s Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself 1
6. Part One. History
7. The Making and Remakings of an American Icon: ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’ from Photojournalism to Global, Digital Media 15
8. The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust’s Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile 36
9. Flags of Their Stepfathers? Race and Culture in the Context of Military Service and the Fight for Citizenship 57
10. Part Two. Flags of Our Fathers
11. Following the Flag in American Film 81
12. Care or Glory? Picturing a New War Hero 100
13. Beyond Mimesis: War, History, and Memory in Flags of Our Fathers 119
14. Clint Eastwood’s Postclassical Multiple Narratives of Iwo Jima 139
15. Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers 157
16. Part Three. Letters From Iwo Jima
17. Eastwood and the Enemy 173
18. East of Eastwood: Iwo Jima and the Japanese Context 194
19. Humanism versus Patriotism: Eastwood Trapped in the Bi-polar Logic of Warfare 218
20. Suicide in Letters from Iwo Jima 231
21. Part Four. War Today
22. To Sell A War: Flags, Lies, And Tragedy 247
23. Banzai! Letters from Iwo Jima and Choosing the Enemy in Risk Society 263
24. Filmography 276
25. Index 279