Perspectives Of War
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Perspectives of War
Clint Eastwoods
Flags of Our Fathers
&
Letters From Iwo Jima
Conversion narrative?
Emotionalizing conflict?
Anti-war films appear during isolationism or opposition to a war.
Showing American soldiers as averse to bloodshed and cruelty
Features of many (pro-)war films
Dehumanizes the enemy.
The enemy is rarely shown in close-ups.
The enemy is often shown in large groups, as threatening mass rather than individual.
Pain is only shown on our side.
Topics for discussion
Text and context
Immediacy and contemporaneity.
Realism.
Imagology
Recognition value rather than truth value
Iconosphere
Memory
Remembering / Re-living
Authenticity
Images of war
The war machinery
War heroics
Letters From Iwo Jima opening
The Japanese war machine
Japanese honor
Letters and the Japanese
Letters
Hierarchy