Reel Men at War: Masculinity and the American War Film

by Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald

As they transition into adulthood, many American boys and young men spend a considerable amount of time engaging in physical sports, playing violent video games, and watching action movies, including war films. In many cases, boys spend more time exposed to media models than they do with their fathers. If, as social learning theorists say, masculinity is learned directly through a system of positive and negative reinforcement, what manly behaviors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810881144
• ISBN13: 9780810881143
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"