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Beautiful war : studies in a dreadful fascination / Philip D. Beidler.

Author: Beidler, Philip D. author.

Imprint:Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]

Description182 pages Illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Note:Arms and the Bard: Soldiering in Shakespeare -- Bury Their Hearts at Horseshoe Band -- Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Reenactors in the Attic -- What Lady Butler Knew -- Qingdao and the Archaeologies of War -- Ralph Vaughan Williams's Long Journey Out of War -- History and Memory in the Great War Paintings of John Singer Sargent -- The Great Party Crasher: Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the Cultures of World War I Remembering -- What Kurt Vonnegut Saw in World War II That Made Him Insane (Along with Billy Pilgrim, Rabo Karabekian, Eliot Rosewater, and Others) -- Script by Stephen Crane, Novel by John Huston, Movie by MGM -- In the Museo de la Revolucon; or, The Ghost of Jos Mart -- By the Numbers: Americans, Vietnamese, and the Figures of Sacrifice.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"A study of war and its myriad representations in art, history, and memory, from the early modern era to the present."--Provided by publisher.

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Beidler, Philip D. author.
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War in art.
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Collective memory -- United States.
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