ABSTRACT

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA

Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Living Room Wars

part I|94 pages

World War II on the Small Screen

chapter 1|13 pages

“Bilko's Bombers”

Anti-Militarism in the Era of the “New Look”

chapter 2|16 pages

The Long Fight

Combat! and the Generic Development of the TV War Drama Series

chapter 4|14 pages

Nervous Laughter

Hogan's Heroes and the Vietnam War 1

chapter 6|16 pages

A Waltz with and for the Greatest Generation

Music in Band of Brothers (2001)

part II|83 pages

Korea and Vietnam on the Small Screen

chapter 7|18 pages

The American Forces Korea Network

“Bringing Troops a Touch of Home”

chapter 8|15 pages

“Everybody Here Is Crazy”

Images of the Disabled on Television's M*A*S*H

chapter 9|18 pages

Drinking the War Away

Televisual Insobriety and the Meanings of Alcohol in M*A*S*H

chapter 10|16 pages

Small-Screen Insurgency

Entertainment Television, the Vietnamese Revolution, and the Cold War, 1953–1967