Saving Private Ryan and American Triumphalism

Journal of Popular Film and Television

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 98-104

  Auster, Albert ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American victories; Emerson War lecture; Lincoln Bixby letter; Post Cold War; Saving Private Ryan; World War II

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750539193     PISSN: 01956051     EISSN: 19306458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01956050209602844     Document Type: Article

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