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187 Abroad with Two Yanks, 87, 100 Adair, Gilbert, 120 Adorée, Renée, 16, 19, 73 Affleck, Ben, 140, 140–141 AIDS, 113, 151–153 Air Force, 43, 43–44 Albert, Eddie, 53, 75 Aldrich, Robert, 74 Alice’s Restaurant, 108, 114 Allen, Judith, 8 All Quiet on the Western Front, 48, 73, 165n16 All the Queen’s Men, 170n1 All Through the Night, 4 Altman, Rick, 4, 16 Altman, Robert, 103 Ambrose, Stephen, 123, 176n10, 179n8 American Beauty, 103, 110–111 American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 167n34 Anderegg, Michael, 170n14 Anderson, Maxwell, 155n1, 160n3 Andrews, Dana, 46, 78 And the Band Played On (book), 151 Anger, Kenneth, 28–30, 170n16 Apocalypse Now, 114, 116–118, 117 Araki, Gregg, 152 Arlen, Richard, 17, 29 Armageddon, 179n9 Ashby, Hal, 73, 82 Attack, 74–75 At War with the Army, 68 Auster, Albert, 138 Axt, William, 162n32 Ayres, Lew, 48, 73, 165n16 Bachner, Evan, 167n29 Bacon, Lloyd, 45 Bad Company, 150 Baker, Mark, 123, 128 Baker, Roger, 87 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 120 Band of Brothers (book), 123 Band of Brothers (cable miniseries), 176n10, 179n8 Barker, Pat, 168n1 Barthes, Roland, 167n30 Basic, 15, 103, 112–113 Basinger, Jeanine, 4–5, 138, 155n2, 161n9, 166n20 Bataan, 58, 60, 167n34 Battle Cry (film), 4, 169n5, 170n9, 176n8 Battle Cry (novel), 176n8 Bay, Michael, 137, 141–142, 179n9 Beckinsale, Kate, 140 Bederman, Gail, 10 Behind Enemy Lines, 137, 145–147 Behind the Front, 26 Bell-Metereau, Rebecca, 87, 101 Belton, John, 40 Bendix, William, 48, 67, 68, 96, 97, 100 Benshoff, Henry, 38 Benton, Robert, 150 Bergren, Laurence, 171n8 Bernhardt, Curtis, 74 I N D E X Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Bérubé, Allan, 54–55, 69, 87, 89–90, 92, 95, 102–103, 155n2, 168n45 Best Years of Our Lives, The, 14, 73, 74, 78, 78–79, 82, 171n8 Between Heaven and Hell, 74, 76 Big Parade, The, 14, 16–20, 19, 26–27, 31, 33, 34, 72, 160n3, 162n32 Big Red One, The, 174n12 Biloxi Blues, 103, 108 Birdy (film), 14, 62–64, 63 Birdy (novel), 62–63 Birth of a Nation, The, 160n2, 161n8 Black, Gregory D., 44 Black Hawk Down, 15, 137, 144–145 Blanchard, Mary W., 10 blanket parties, 126–127, 177n24 Bleckner, Jeff, 173n8 Blue Skies, 167n33 Bogart, Humphrey, 75, 180n17 Bogdanovich, Peter, 180n9 Bombardier, 53–54 Boorman, John, 127, 150 Boothe, Clare, 171n12 Born on the Fourth of July, 73, 81–82, 83 Bourke, Joanna, 72, 123, 124, 155n2, 164n37 Bow, Clara, 28–29 Boxwell, David, 87–89 Boyle, Richard, 175n3 Boys in Company C, The, 108, 114–116, 115, 135 Boys in the Band, The, 103, 150 Bradley, James, 180n18 Brando, Marlon, 75, 79, 80, 103, 104, 116 Braveheart, 178n3 Breen, Joseph I., 65, 67–68, 81, 98, 167n31, 167n32 Bressan, Arthur, Jr., 151 Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 87, 93–95, 94 Bridges, Lloyd, 83 Bristol, Horace, 167n29 Bristow, Joseph, 7, 24, 151 Broderick, Matthew, 108 Brokaw, Tom, 137, 141 Brooks, Richard, 122 Brown, Clarence, 16, 25, 31, 161n23 Brownlow, Kevin, 25 Brownmiller, Susan, 130, 132, 177n30 Broyles, William, Jr., 33, 51, 135, 147, 164n41 Bruckheimer, Jerry, 180m9 Brute Force, 4 buddies, 3, 15, 16, 18, 20; sexuality and, 26–30, 148–153. See also homosexuality; intimacy, physical, between males; love, affection between males; “My Buddy” (song) Buddies, 151 buddy films, 38–39, 41, 47, 148–150, 161n8 Burke, Carol, 125 Burney, Kirk, 173n8 Burns, Edward, 133 Burns, Richard Allen, 176n11 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 150 Burrows, James, 150 Butler, Judith, 58, 89, 157n19 Caban, Dan, 171n8 Cabaret, 150 Cage, Nicolas, 62, 63 Cagney, James, 169n5 Caine Mutiny, The, 74–75 Caldwell, Christopher, 133 Campomanes, Oscar V., 157n23 Canby, Vincent, 174n14 Caputo, Philip, 33, 51–52 Carney, Ralph M., 174n16 Carpenter, C. Carter, 103 Castonguay, James, 11, 157n23 Casualties of War, 114, 126, 129–132, 130 Caton-Jones, Michael, 42 Celluloid Closet, The (documentary film) 152 Chauncy, George, Jr., 30–31, 172n2 Chopra-Gant, Mike, 167n33 Cimino, Michael, 14, 33, 135 Civil War films. See individual titles Clark, Dane, 65, 77 Clift, Montgomery, 1, 23, 34, 35, 106 Clinton, Bill, 102, 108 Cohan, Steven, 9, 55, 155n2, 165n8, 172n2, 173n6 Cold War, 138 Cole, Sarah, 30, 163n14, 164n37 Coming Home, 73, 81–82 Coming Out Under Fire (documentary film), 103 Common Ground, 173n8 comrades. See buddies Conan, Allen, 173n10 Connell, R. W., 6–7, 21, 60, 82, 151 Conzale, John, 36 Cooper, Chris, 103, 111, 135 Cooper, Stephen, 173n10 Coppola, Francis...

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