A 'Toxic Genre': The Iraq War Films
Autor Martin Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2011
Martin Barker analyses the production and reception of these recent Iraq war films. Among the issues he examines are the borrowing of soldiers’ YouTube styles of self-representation to generate an ‘authentic’ Iraq experience, and how they take refuge in ‘apolitical’ post-traumatic stress disorder. Barker also looks afresh at some classic issues in film theory: the problems of accounting for film ‘failures’, the shaping role of production systems, the significance of genre-naming and the impact of that 'toxic' label.
A 'Toxic Genre' is fascinating reading for film studies students and anyone interested in cinema's portrayal of modern warfare.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745331294
ISBN-10: 0745331297
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 135 x 215 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745331297
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 135 x 215 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Notă biografică
Martin Barker is Research Professor at Aberystwyth University. He has researched and published widely on topics ranging from comic books, censorship campaigns, arguments over 'dangerous media', methods of film analysis, and audiences for films ranging from Judge Dredd and Crash to Being John Malkovich and The Lord of the Rings.
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Acknowledgements
1 The disappearing Iraq war films
2 No True Glory: the film that never was
3 Constructing an ‘Iraq war experience’
4 From Doughboys to Grunts: the ‘American soldier’
5 Understanding film ‘failures’
6 Bringing the war home
7 Explaining the Iraq war
8 Producing a ‘toxic genre’
9 Free-riders and outliers
10 Latino grunts: the new victim-heroes
11 The Hurt Locker and beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1 The disappearing Iraq war films
2 No True Glory: the film that never was
3 Constructing an ‘Iraq war experience’
4 From Doughboys to Grunts: the ‘American soldier’
5 Understanding film ‘failures’
6 Bringing the war home
7 Explaining the Iraq war
8 Producing a ‘toxic genre’
9 Free-riders and outliers
10 Latino grunts: the new victim-heroes
11 The Hurt Locker and beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index