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The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences?
Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided. Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like 'Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper', to documentaries like 'Kill List and Dirty Wars', as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions. Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.
WAR FILMS--HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- Film --- War films --- Motion pictures and war. --- History and criticism. --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism
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Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic images of battle have on human consciousness, belief, and action. The contributors explore a variety of topics,
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This companion volume to Reel Men at War takes a look at how women have been portrayed in war films, from silents of the 1920s to films of the 21st century. The authors explore the full range of women on the home front, covering nurses and doctors on the war front and women in combat. Films examined include Wings, A Farewell to Arms, Since Yo
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War films --- War in literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- J6839 --- J5509 --- J5500.90 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- War films History and criticism --- War films - History and criticism --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism
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From the onset of the film medium, directors have found war an endlessly compelling and fruitful subject for their art. In War and Film, Chapman explores their fascination as well as audiences’ enduring need to examine and experience the vicissitudes of war.Chapman examines the issues of truthfulness and realism that arise in depictions of war, whether in the supposed truth telling of war documentaries or Hollywood battle scenes that are “more realistic than the real thing.” The book considers films from the U. S., Britain, and Europe, and the national responses to cinematic depictions of particular conflicts. In case studies of such legendary works as Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, and All Quiet on the Western Front, the book parses their dominant narrative themes, ranging from war as a pointless tragedy to combat as an exciting and heroic adventure. But few films, Chapman contends, probe into the deeper ramifications of war—the psychological scars left on the soldier and civilians.A study of remarkable breadth and scope, War and Film exposes the power of cinema in shaping our perceptions of violent conflict. (Provided by publisher) "War and Film discusses the representation of war as spectacle, considering the claims of realism and authenticity from front-line combat cinematography to the hyper-realism of contemporary films that are claimed to be 'more realistic than the real thing'. Chapman considers both the depiction of war as tragedy and the role of film in the commemoration of war. He explains how film has explored the legacy of conflict and how it has attempted to come to terms with warfare's brutal psychological scars. But he also argues that an alternative tradition can be identified in films that positively valorize war, presenting it not as a pointless tragedy but as the opportunity for heroic adventure and a testing ground for masculinity and nationalism." "A study of remarkable breadth and scope, War and Film demonstrates how war has shaped the history of cinema and how cinema has shaped our attitudes towards war."--Jacket.
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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature, Modern --- Collective memory and literature. --- War films --- Collective memory and motion pictures. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Motion pictures and collective memory --- Literature and collective memory --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Collective memory and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war --- War films - History and criticism --- Collective memory and motion pictures --- World War I. --- cultural memory. --- war film. --- war literature.
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#SBIB:309H1331 --- #SBIB:309H1320 --- #SBIB:001.GIFTCOM --- Films met een persuasieve functie (met inbegrip van de propaganda- en reclamefilm) --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Motion pictures and war --- War films --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures --- History --- Motion pictures and the war --- War films History and criticism
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Si le XXe siècle a été celui des guerres, il a été aussi celui de l'avènement de la mise en scène de théâtre et de cinéma. Cet ouvrage interroge le lien étroit et vivant entre guerre et mise en scène, tant théâtrale que cinématographique. Car le phénomène de la guerre, à travers lequel s'écrit l'histoire du siècle, n'en finit pas de questionner la représentation artistique, et de renvoyer le théâtre et le cinéma à leurs propres limites, éthiques et esthétiques, les invitant à dépasser celles-ci pour s'inventer des formes nouvelles. Abordant les représentations de cinq périodes ou conflits charnières, la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les guerres postcoloniales, les guerres du Proche-Orient, le conflit en ex-Yougoslavie et l'après-11-Septembre, les études rassemblées ici sont l'oeuvre d'universitaires, de spécialistes, et ménagent une parole aux artistes eux-mêmes (cinéastes, metteurs en scène, auteurs, traducteurs). Elles abordent le traitement fictionnel aussi bien que la démarche documentaire, en faisant la part de leurs interpénétrations. Se dessinent de la sorte un panorama des événements les plus tragiques et destructeurs de notre histoire contemporaine, mais aussi un parcours des oeuvres qui, depuis cent ans jusqu'à notre plus récente actualité, se sont acharnées à construire une mémoire vivante de notre passé et de notre présent.
War and theater --- War films --- Guerre et théâtre --- Films de guerre --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Guerre et théâtre --- War and theater - Congresses --- War films - History and criticism - Congresses --- Cinéma et guerre --- Théâtre et guerre --- Guerre --- 20e siècle --- Au cinéma
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. --- War films --- History and criticism. --- Joshua Hirsch --- film --- trauma --- film en geschiedenis --- twintigste eeuw --- wereldoorlog II --- holocaust --- Resnais Alain --- Lanzmann Claude --- Szabo Istvan --- Lumet Sidney --- 791.43 --- 791.41 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures --- War films History and criticism
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This book offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war terror extermination torture and abuse. Author blurb: The book combines art and politics in an original way. It uses art of various kinds (paintings poems novels photographs films) to explore war; it demonstrates how art can do this. It ranges across the wars of the last century from the Great War to the Global War on Terror. It is alive to the idea of moral life even amid depravity and destruction. It is written in a distinctive style which is said to have some affinities with the work of John Berger. It has one foot in scholarship the other in magic arts.
Art and war. --- War and literature. --- War in art. --- War in literature. --- War films --- Arts and morals. --- Arts and ethics --- Ethics and the arts --- Morals and the arts --- Literature and war --- Literature --- War and art --- Art and history --- Art and state --- History and criticism. --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism
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