Part1: Early Formations of War Cinema in the United States
1. The Spanish-American War in US Media Culture James Castonguay
2. National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism, and World War 1, 1913?1919 Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell
3. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War, 1914?1941 Michael Isenberg
4. War and Cinema: Interpreting the Relationship Pierre Sorlin
Part2: The Apotheosis of the Hollywood War Film
5. World War II and the Hollywood War Film Thomas Schatz
6. Leni Riefenstahl's Contribution to the American War Effort Thomas Doherty
7. Will this Picture Help to Win the War? Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
8. Definition Jeanine Basinger
9. Hollywood and the World War II Conversion Narrative Lary May
10. The Organization Man Goes to War Peter Biskind
Part3: The Ascendance of Ambivalence
11. Chambers II, All Quiet on the Western Front, John Whitelay
12. Missing Action: POW Films, Brainwashing and the Korean War 1954?1968 Charles Young
13. Film and the War: Representing Vietnam David E. James
14. Vietnam and the New Militarism Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner
15. The Colonialist Subtext in Platoon, Claude Taylor
Part4: Hollywood and War since Vietnam
16. Techno-Muscularity and the Boy Eternal: From the Quagmire to the Gulf Lynda Boose
17. Seriously Spectacular: Authenticity and Art in the War Epic Geoff King
18. The New War Movies as Moral Rearmament Tom Doherty
19. A Cultural History of War without End Melani McAlister
20. Welcome to the Desert of the Real Slavoj Zizek
Part5: War as a Way of Seeing
21. War, Film, History: American Images of Real War, 1890?1925 Geoffrey Klingsporn
22. A Travelling Shot over Eighty Years Paul Virilio
23. Experiences of Modern Warfare and the Crisis of Representation Bernd Huppauf
24. War as a Way of Seeing George H. Roeder, Jr.
25. 'Make My Day!': Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics Michael Rogin
