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... reaching mass audiences with messages that champion US imperial power: Rambo IV, a particularly bloody recycling of the familiar 1980s Rambo episodes, and Charlie Wilson’s War, a cinematic tale about well-intentioned US global designs in Afghanistan during the 1980s. Looking at the four Rambo films...

... evil in itself, the quintessential outpost of hell on Earth. Once war had its grip on Colonel Kurtz, there was no letting go until he and everything around him was completely destroyed. No work on the Hollywood War Machine would be complete without a discussion of at least the first Rambo film, First...

... discussing a number of recent Hollywood productions including Rambo IV and Charlie Wilson's War. This is my last issue as Editor of New Political Science. Serving as Editor for the last six years has been a richly rewarding experience. I have specially enjoyed the opportunity to work with and learn from so...

..., Flamboyant Sommelier: Chavez, Citizenship, and Populism Anthony Peter Spanakos 521 Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle 545 The Imperial Warrior in Hollywood: Rambo and Beyond Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard...

... has primed us for drug abuse.22. Motion pictures exploit our drug fears: Rambos and Tenninators have now switchedfrom the Soviets to the druglords to wreak their vengeance.23 In the music business, sanctimonious appeals by rock stars provide little help. Predictably, the most recent Grammy Award went...

...). The preferred modus operandi-though most often fortunately relegated to the sphere of romantic mythology-is that of direct, violent action with plenty of big weapons, following in the path of Rambo, Lethal Weapon, and Patriot Games.22 The role of the mass media in reproducing a culture of militarism cannot...

... of the Reagan approach to a BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY ON CENTRAL AMERICA 167 subtler approach, relying more heavily on covert operations-from Rambo to James Bond, so to speak. As predicted by Business Latin Anlerica,3 Bush was "holding the line," while ""lowering the stakes." The change of style was also...

..., feverish patriotic mobilization, great deeds of heroism in the context of dramatic military victories. The Rambo films of the 1980s capture precisely this element of the Vietnam syndrome and valiant struggles to conquer it, while Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) is one of several major...

... events the federal government received more than 140 bomb threats. Public officials, especially in the west and midwest, are increasingly confronted and verbally assaulted at their workplace and in open meetings. Intense anger provokes many to embrace Rambo-like scenarios, where individuals or small...

..., "Pearl Harbor: How Film Conquers History," New Political Science 28:4 (2006), pp. 451-466; Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard, "Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism," New Political Science 28:3 (2006), pp. 335-351; Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard, "The Imperial Warrior in Hollywood: Rambo and Beyond," New...