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"Ambush in Mogadishu." Frontline. Prod. William Cran. PBS. WGBH, Boston 29 September 1998. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/

“Ambush in Mogadishu.” Frontline. PBS. Sept. 1998. 30 Nov. 2007. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/

Bolger, Daniel P. Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s. Novato: Presidio P, 1995.

Bowden, Mark. "A Defining Battle." Black Hawk Down. 16 Nov. 1997. The Philadelphia Enquirer. 9 Dec. 2007. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

Bowden, Mark. “Black Hawk Down: An American War Story.” Philadelphia Inquirer 9 Dec. 2007. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp

Burnett, Eric. History through Film: Volume 1. Raleigh: Lulu Enterprises, 2008.

Campbell, Jon. “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.” Air & Space Power Journal 16.3 (2002): 118.

Carruthers, S. L. "Bringing It All Back Home: Hollywood Returns to War." Small Wars and Insurgencies 14.1 (2003): 167-82.

Clark, Mike. "'Black Hawk' turns nightmare into great cinema." USA Today 28 Dec. 2001. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2001-12-28-black-hawk-down-review.htm

Cox, A. "Black Hawk Down: Shoot first, don't ask questions later." Independent 12 January 2002.

Dawson, Ashley. "New World Disorder: Black Hawk Down and the Eclipse of U. S. Military Humanitarianism in Africa." African Studies Review 54.2 (2011): 177-94.

DeLong, Kent, and Steven Tuckey. Mogadishu! Heroism and Tragedy. Westport: Praeger, 1994.

Doherty, Tom, "The New War Movies as a Moral Rearmament: Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers. Cineaste 27.3 (2002): 4-8.

Doll, Susan (updated by Joseph Milicia). "Ridley Scott." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Sc-St/Scott-Ridley.html

Durant, Michael J. In the Company of Heroes. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.

Ebert, Roger. "Black Hawk Down." rogerebert.com. 18 Jan 2002. 4 Nov. 2007. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020118/REVIEWS/201180301/1023

Eversmann, Matt, and Dan Schilling, eds. The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Foden, G. "You can't diddle with the truth." Guardian 11 January 2002.

Gates, Philippa. "'Fighting the Good Fight': The Real and the Moral in the Contemporary Hollywood Combat." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.4 (2005): 297-310.

Graham, Bob. "Mission Accomplished: 'Black Hawk Down' a brutally effective depiction of Somali Battle." San Francisco Chronicle 18 Jan. 2002. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/18/DD192063.DTL

Gregory, Sophfronia S. "How Somalia Crumbled." Time 140 14 Dec. 1992. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977234,00.html?iid=chix-sphere

Gross, Terry. "Ridley Scott Discusses Making His Oscar-Nominated Movie Black Hawk Down." Ridley Scott: Interviews. Ed. Laurence F. Knapp and Andrea F. Kulas. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2005. 206-17.

Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace. New York: Scribner Books, 2001.

Hildebrandt, Gregory G. “A Story of Modern War”. Review of Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden. Armed Forces & Society(2000): 160-62.

Horan, Mike. Eyes over Mogadishu: Photos and Stories. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2003.

Howe, Desson. "'Black Hawk' Down and Dirty." Washington Post. 18 Jan. 2002. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/01/18/AR2005033115955.html

Johns, Michael. Preserving American Ties to Somalia. The Heritage Foundation. Heritage Foundation Reports, 1989. 9 Dec. 2007.

Kunisch, Blake. "Black Hawk Down." www.movielocity.com. 2 Feb. 2002. 6 March 2008. http://www.movielocity.com/m/r.cgi?ID=415

Lacy, Mark J. “War, Cinema, and Moral Anxiety.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 28.5 (Nov/Dec. 2003): 611-36.

Lawrence, John Shelton, and John G. McGarrahan. "Operation Restore Honor in Black Hawk Down." Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2008. 431-57.

Licklider, Roy. “Somalia, U.S. Military Involvement.” The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. John White Chambers II. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Lisle, Debbie, and Andrew Pepper. "The New Face of Global Hollywood: Black Hawk Down and the Politics of Meta-Sovereignty." Cultural Politics 1.2 (2005): 165-92.

Lock-Pullan, Richard. U.S. Intervention Policy and Army Innovation. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Machin, David. "Computer Games as Political Discourse: The Case of Black Hawk Down. The Soft Power of War. Ed. Lilie Chouliaraki. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007. 109-28.

McCarthy, Michael. “US military revamps combat medic training and care: new training methods for US combat medics are transforming the care of war causalities.” Lancet (2003): 494. Ebsco Host. Worcester State College Lib. 10 Dec. 2003.

McCrisken, Trevor, and Andrew Pepper. "Hollywood's Post-Cold War History: The 'Rigteousness' of American Interventionism." American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005: 187-210.

Mitchell, Elvis. "Black Hawk Down: Mission of Mercy Goes Bad in Africa." New York Times 28 Dec. 2001. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/movies/28HAWK.html

Monbiot, G. "Both Saviour and Victim: Black Hawk Down Creates a New and Dangerous Myth of American Nationhood." Guardian 29 January 2002.

Niemi, Robert. History in the Media: Film and Television. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006: 171-72.

Nolan, K., ed. Black Hawk Down: The Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press, 2002.

Patman, Robert. “Disarming Somalia: the contrasting fortunes of the United States and Australian peacekeepers during United Nations intervention, 1992-1993.” African Affairs 25 (1997). Academic One File. InfoTrac. Worcester State College Lib. 10 Dec. 2007.

Peterson, Scott. Me against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda: A Journalist reports from the Battlefields of Africa. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Schwarzbaum, Lisa. "Black Hawk Down." Entertainment Weekly. 10 Jan. 2002. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,192671~1~0~blackhawkdown,00.html

Shaw, Ibrahim S. "Historical Frames and the Politics of Humanitarian Intervention: From Ethiopia, Somalia to Rwanda." Globalisation, Societies & Education 5 (2007).

Shepard, Alicia C.. “Appointment in Somalia.” American Journalism Review 24.2 (March 2002): 28.

Showalter, Dennis. “Imagery and Realism: The Two Faces of Black Hawk Down.” Diplomatic History 26.4 (March 2002): 28.

Snyder, R. "Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu." Nova Online. Aug. 2001. 28 Nov. 2007. http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Somalia93/Somalia93.html

“Somalia - UNOSOM I.” Department of Public Information, United Nations. 21 March 1997. 27 November 2007. http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/unosomi.htm

“Somalia - UNOSOM II.” Department of Public Information, United Nations. 21 March 1997. 27 November 2007. http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/unosom2b.htm

Sterritt, David. "'Black Hawk Down' Offers Actions, Not Insights." Christian Science Monitor. 18 Jan. 2002. 4 Nov. 2007. http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0118/p15s01-almo.html

Stevenson, Jonathan. Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Suid, Lawrence H., and Dolorea A. Haverstick. Stars and Stripes on Screen: A Comprehensive Guide to Portrayals of American Military on Film . Lanham: Scarecrow P, 2005: 27.

Travers, Peter. "Black Hawk Down." Rolling Stone 31 Jan. 2002. 4 Nov 2007. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947085/review/5947086/black_hawk_down

The True Story of Black Hawk Down. Dir. David Keane. DVD. The History Channel, 2003.

Wetta, Frank Joseph. "'Now a Major Motion Picture': War Films and Hollywood's New Patriotism." Journal of Military History 67.3 (2003): 861-82.

Winkler, P. "(Feminist) Activism Post September 11: Protesting Black Hawk Down." International Feminist Journal of Politics 4.3 (2002): 415-30.

Yacowar, Maurice. “Film Springs Eternal.” Queen’s Quarterly 109.1 (Spring 2002); 61-71. Academic OneFile. Gale. Worcester State College. 15 Oct. 2007.

Young, Marilyn B. “In the Combat Zone.” Radical History Review (Winter 2003): 253-64.