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While filmic representations of 'enemies' are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates the (de)(re)constructions of enemy images in international film since the 1970s. The three parts deal with (re)configurations of the enemy in contemporary global cinemas, analysing films on the two world wars, on regional military conflicts, ethnic, racial and gender conflicts, socio-political conflicts and forms of terrorism. The essays concentrate on film aesthetics and contemporary (geo)politics, on filmic renderings of identity crises caused by troubled national pasts, and on the way films explore the collective psychological mechanisms at play in the construction, perpetuation or problematizing of enemy images. The volume aims to show how in spite of the diversity of national cinemas, moving images are constitutive of national collectivities by rendering conflicts involving an external or internal enemy as the defining points in national or communal histories. It also points out how the dynamics of internalism and exteriority (of 'we' and 'they') has proved vital in this process.
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Comment les hommes en viennent-ils à se massacrer légalement ?«Nous allons vous rendre le pire des services, nous allons vous priver d'ennemi !» avait prédit en 1989 Arbatov, conseiller diplomatique de Gorbatchev. L'ennemi soviétique avait toutes les qualités d'un «bon» ennemi : solide, constant, cohérent. Sa disparition a en effet entamé la cohésion de l'Occident et rendu plus vaine sa puissance.L'ennemi est-il une nécessité ? Il est très utile en tout cas pour souder une nation, asseoir sa puissance et occuper son secteur militaro-industriel. C'est pourquoi les États, les services de renseignements, les think tanks stratégiques et autres faiseurs d'opinion «fabriquent» consciencieusement de l'ennemi, qu'il soit rival planétaire (Chine), ennemi proche (Inde-Pakistan), ennemi intime (Rwanda), Mal absolu, ennemi conceptuel ou médiatique.Certains ennemis sont bien réels, d'autres, cependant, analysés avec le recul du temps, se révèlent étonnamment artificiels. Conséquence : si l'ennemi est une construction, pour le vaincre, il faut non pas le battre, mais le déconstruire. Il s'agit moins au final d'une affaire militaire que d'une question politique. -- From publisher's website.
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The purpose of this book is to present the image and role of enemy in the Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions as well as in selected textual sources of other kinds, including literary, magical and religious texts, along with some administrative or even economic sources. In contrast to other publications, where all mentions of military opponents (or, more broadly, of non-Assyrians) are treated as mentions of enemies, I will focus here only on those fragments where such opponents are clearly and unambiguously described as enemy, and that means that specific expressions are used to define individuals, peoples and lands as hostile to Assyria. five such terms will be discussed in detail in this book, namely aiiābu(m), gērû(m), nakru(m), zāʾeru(m) and zāwiānu (zāmânu) as well as epithets regarding them. This book is divided into six parts. The First of these is a short historical background to the described issue, with special regard to royal inscriptions and changes in their composition. The Second part is devoted to textual sources of different kinds, which are useful for studying the matter of enemy in the Neo-Assyrian period. The third part contains a short description and characteristics of Assyrian rulers, as can be found in textual as well as pictorial sources. The fourth part is the main one and consists of detailed descriptions of terms used to describe enemies of Assyria, and epithets that can be presented as being related to these terms. the fifth part is a short summary of the issues discussed in this book, while the last part is a list of textual fragments, containing terms and epithets that concern peoples and forces inimical to Assyria.
Enemies --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Assyria --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Civilization --- Enemies - Assyria
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World politics --- International relations --- Enemies --- History
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World War, 1914-1918 --- France --- Germany --- Enemies
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Plutella --- Brassicaceae --- natural enemies --- Biological control --- world
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Plant protection --- Biological control --- natural enemies --- France
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Enemies (Persons) in literature --- Egyptian literature --- Criticism and interpretation --- Egyptian language --- Enemies --- Hostility (Psychology) --- Enmity --- Hostile behavior --- Psychology --- Adversaries --- Antagonists --- Enemies (Persons) --- Foes --- Opponents --- Afroasiatic languages --- Texts --- Enemies (Persons) in literature - Congresses. --- Egyptian literature - Criticism and interpretation - Congresses.
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