Male armor [electronic resource] : the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture / Jon Robert Adams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural frames, framing culturePublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.Description: xi, 160 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.310973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090.3 .A33 2008eb
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Contents:
Introduction : soldier's heart -- "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture -- The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity -- Envelope, please : the metonymic male -- Winning this time : the war that wasn't -- Conclusion : time warp.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.

Introduction : soldier's heart -- "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture -- The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity -- Envelope, please : the metonymic male -- Winning this time : the war that wasn't -- Conclusion : time warp.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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