This text applies theories of contemporary cultural studies to the analysis of wars. The central proposition is that, just as wars produce fictions, so the apprehension and experience of wars themselves - in the real world - are substantially the products of fictions of nationhood, history, race, gender and class. The book offers an analysis of a broad range of war fictions - popular fiction, journals, memoirs, contemporary press coverage, histories and official government reports, as well as photographic, graphic and cinematic treatments - drawn from or reflecting on the conflicts in Vietnam, the two world wars, the Spanish Civil War and the conflicts in the Gulf and the Falklands. It sets out the relations between fiction, myth and ideology in the construction and deconstruction of war.
- ISBN10 0745309569
- ISBN13 9780745309569
- Publish Date 23 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English