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Big Screen Empire: What Foreign Films Reveal About the Perceptions of U.S. Military Bases in Affected Host Nations

Walker, John Richard
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1666111211767339

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2022, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, History.
Existing scholarly literature on U.S. military bases in foreign nations does not adequately take films depicting such installations into account. This master’s thesis is a corrective for this oversight. Recognizing the utility of foreign films featuring American military bases or troop presences, this thesis examines them in light of scholarly work on these installations. Of particular importance in this analysis are the periodization of U.S. basing favored by Robert Kaplan and the categorization of varieties of antibase protest favored by Kent Calder. Using these two writers as an analytical framework, as well as histories of U.S. basing and military occupations, it is possible to view these films as primary sources for these occupations. While depictions of Americans as individuals vary across films, generally U.S. occupations are viewed negatively by the non-American filmmakers examined. Local authorities of host nations are equally criticized for complicity in the crimes committed by the occupiers.
Jonathan Winkler, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Paul Lockhart, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kathryn Meyer, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Arvind Elangovan, Ph.D. (Other)
167 p.
American History; Film Studies; History; International Relations; Military History; Modern History
United States; United States history; 20th century; United States military; United States foreign relations; military bases; military basing; Japanese history; German history; South Korean history; non-U.S. films; U.S. military in film; Americans in film

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  • Walker, J. R. (2022). Big Screen Empire: What Foreign Films Reveal About the Perceptions of U.S. Military Bases in Affected Host Nations [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1666111211767339

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walker, John. Big Screen Empire: What Foreign Films Reveal About the Perceptions of U.S. Military Bases in Affected Host Nations . 2022. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1666111211767339.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walker, John. "Big Screen Empire: What Foreign Films Reveal About the Perceptions of U.S. Military Bases in Affected Host Nations ." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1666111211767339

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