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04606aam a22004698i 4500 001 9FF00832462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180130t20182018cau 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018004260 020 $a 0520299183 020 $a 9780520299184 020 $a 0520299175 020 $a 9780520299177 035 $a (OCoLC)1023817032 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E895 $b .I47 2018 082 00 $a 327.73009/05 $2 23 245 00 $a Imperial benevolence : $b U.S. foreign policy and American popular culture since 9/11 / $c edited by Scott Laderman and Tim Gruenewald. 263 $a 1808 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2018] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "'We don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic. We never have been. I can't imagine why you'd even ask the question.' So snapped Donald Rumsfeld at a reporter for Al Jazeera in 2003, just weeks after the George W. Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq. While most scholars speak without hesitation about the United States as an imperial power, much of the American public, like the former secretary of defense, maintains otherwise. Imperialism is a bad word in the American political lexicon--it's something they do, not us. Millions of Americans prefer to see their government's actions abroad as selfless, benevolent, even divinely inspired. This exceptionalist mentality has deep roots, from the humanitarian objectives ascribed to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century continental expansion to the more recent characterizations of the United States as a global policeman tasked with upholding international norms and laws. Imperial Benevolence examines the ways that American popular culture since 9/11 has broadly presented the United States as a global force for good, a reluctant hegemon working to defend human rights and protect or expand democracy from the barbarians determined to destroy it. While there have been notable exceptions, much of popular culture since 9/11 has assumed American innocence. The United States may occasionally appear a bungler, and there can be rogue elements that attempt to undermine the government's official policies, but the basic goodness that drives American foreign relations--its diplomacy, its military interventions, its people-to-people encounters -- rarely gets challenged."--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction. Camouflaging empire : imperial benevolence in American popular culture / Scott Laderman -- Imperial cry-faces : women lamenting the war on terror / Rebecca A. Adelman -- "Pro-warrior, but not necessarily pro-war" : American sniper, sheep, and sheepdogs / Edwin A. Martini -- "The first step towards curing the post-war blues is a return to nature" : veterans' outdoor rehabilitation programs and the normalization of empire / David Kieran -- Exceptional soldiers : imagining the privatized military on U.S. TV / Stacy Takacs -- Obama's "just war" : the American hero and just violence in popular TV series / Min Kyung (Mia) Yoo -- Superhero films after 9/11 : mitigating "collateral damage" in the Marvel cinematic universe / Tim Gruenewald -- Humanity's greatest hope : the American ideal in Marvel's The Avengers / Ross Griffin -- The perfect Cold War movie for today : smoke and mirrors in Steven Spielberg's vision of the Cold War / Tony Shaw -- Disfiguring the Americas : representing drugs, violence, and immigration in the age of Trump / Patrick William Kelly -- Black ops diplomacy and the foreign policy of popular culture / Penny M. Von Eschen. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Imperialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968126 650 7 $a Popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071344 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Laderman, Scott, $d 1971- $e editor. 700 1 $a Gruenewald, Tim, $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Imperial benevolence. $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] $z 9780520971028 $w (DLC) 2018007347 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214015839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9FF00832462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search