Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Flags, Football, and the NFL's "Foxy" Patriotism Problem

Lisa Ferguson

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Flags, Football, and the NFL's "Foxy" Patriotism Problem

Lisa Ferguson

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This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless, since September 11, a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts, giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture of modern- day Super Bowls was easy to portend; what was more difficult to predict was the imprint it would leave on U.S. citizens and American politics. Ben Fountain's award-winning novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, reveals what passes for patriotism in a country that has reduced the sober and stark reality of combat to pageantry and production for the crowd back home, leaving our troops to unwittingly play the part of entertainers, destined to be sexualized just like the cheerleaders and dancers so frequently performing alongside them.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003849339
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

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