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xv| Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the continuing friendship and support of my two mentors, Tom Conley and Robert Rosenstone, who have encouraged and inspired me throughout my career and whose own scholarly work serves as a model. Both have created exceptional, original bodies of scholarship, and they have succeeded in swimming against the current. I also acknowledge the more recent but equally formative influence of my two colleagues at Wayne State University, Steve Shaviro and Ken Jackson, whose vanguard positions in critical theory found a way into my own work. Steve and Ken’s generosity and willingness to share their sophisticated critical understanding have been the source of some of the happiest discoveries in these pages. The friendship I recently established with Rikke Schubart at the University of Southern Denmark produced a significant scholarly assignment as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, during which I completed the chapter on Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. The symposium hosted by Rikke on the two Clint Eastwood films ranks as one of the most exciting intellectual exchanges I have had yet in academia. My long-standing friendship with Dina Iordanova at the University of St. Andrews led to a visit that has become a key event in my life, and I thank her for her encouragement and generosity. For the emotional spark that energized and buoyed me during the past two years of writing , I thank my students, whose youth is contagious. And above all, thanks to Doug Armato at the University of Minnesota Press, who has been a steadfast and faithful champion through the years. I acknowledge the generous support of The Humanities Center at Wayne State University, which facilitated the writing of chapter 8, and I thank Wayne State University for the sabbatical support in 2008 to complete this project. xvi | Acknowledgments ...

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