The nostalgic zeitgeist of the 1990s manifested itself in Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw’s books on the “Greatest Generation,” the release of a number of World War II-themed films, and the construction of the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. World War II video games-which are some of the most popular games featuring military combat-participate in the cultural nostalgia for the war to which recent films like Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998) and Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001) contributed. Increasingly, however, this task has also been taken up by new media-video games, in particular-resulting in new perspectives on the social and political meanings of the war in contemporary America. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: LFA 2009įrom Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943) to Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009), the cinema has taken on the cultural task of visualizing World War II. × Current About Archive Submit Editorial Board Salisbury University The World War II Video Game, Adaptation, and Postmodern History Tanine Allison (Emory University)
