TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURES
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ABSTRACT
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Literature Review
Methodology and Sources
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3
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CHAPTER TWO: THE PRELUDE, 1937-1941
American Popular Media in the 1930’s
Conflict Between China and Japan
Manchuria
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
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22
27
30
33
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CHAPTER THREE: WAR AND PERCEPTION, 1942-1945
Internment of Japanese-Americans
Traditional Media
Newsreels
Pacific Theater in the Movies
Wake Island (1942)
Bataan (1943)
Corregidor (1943)
Marine Raiders (1944)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Dropping the Bomb
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61
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90
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106
110
113
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119
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CHAPTER FOUR: THROUGH THE LENS OF OTHER WARS IN
ASIA, 1945-1975
Cold War and Containment
Japanese Occupation
Reframing the Media Perspective
Looking Back in the McCarthy Years
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
A Revolution in Brutality, on the Evening News
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145
148
158
164
177
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CHAPTER FIVE: LAYERS OF MEMORY, 1975-1990
The Legacy of Vietnam
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202
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Japan in the 1980’s
With the Old Breed
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225
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
Does Anyone Remember?
A New Vision of Asia
Coda: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
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242
253
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APPENDIX A: LIFE MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS, 1939-1945
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APPENDIX B: LIST OF MOVIES ABOUT THE PACIFIC WAR, IN
ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
270
VITA
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