Acceding to War: Nationalism, Popular Entertainment and the Battle of Gettysburg
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White, NicholasIssue Date
2009Committee Chair
McAllister, Ken S.
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The University of Arizona.Rights
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I explore nationalism within popular United States' history and analyze the nationalistic rhetoric within a popular novel, film, television documentary, and computer game that use the Battle of Gettysburg as their subject. With these examples I argue that popular history and entertainment cultivate social conditions amenable to war. Rather than strictly focusing on overtly and officially sanctioned political arguments, I interrogate recurring defenses of United States' nationalism within popular history and entertainment using the concepts of sociological propaganda and collective memory to further my argument. By focusing on popular representations of a seminal event in United States' history, I contend that such an event has been used to affirm nationalistic hegemony in the present.Type
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Ph.D.Degree Level
doctoralDegree Program
EnglishGraduate College