Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan
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Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

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Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

About this book

This book offers insights into diverse non-American national perspectives on the US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq within the generic frames of the war film.

While the best-known films about the post-9/11 wars in the Middle East are American productions, various other national cinematographies have responded to these conflicts, which is not surprising given the fact that international coalitions were formed to support the US military effort. However, non-American war films about these US-instigated interventions have received little attention outside their own national contexts. This volume fills in the gap in the existing war film criticism by offering insights into how the Afghanistan War (2001–2021) and the Iraq War (2003–2011) have been represented in popular and documentary filmic productions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Spain, and Australia. The contributions prove the need for transnationalism as an eye-opening perspective on the war film genre by underscoring nationally-specific social, political and aesthetic differences alongside important correspondences between cultural productions across nations.
Transnational film and the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of film studies, media and cultural studies, film history, war studies, literary criticism and sociology. It was originally published as a special issue of Journal of War & Culture Studies.

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Yes, you can access Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan by Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż,Marek Paryż in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Film History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Transnationalism and the War Film Genre
  9. 1 The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote: Cinematic Representations of American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan
  10. 2 Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha
  11. 3 Burdens of History, Ethics of Engagement: German Film and the Afghan War
  12. 4 Beyond ‘Us and Them’? National and Global Themes in Danish Afghanistan Films
  13. 5 Heroic Soldiers, Justified Wars: Depictions of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in Polish Popular Film
  14. 6 From Inculcation to Liberation: Pop Culture-Addled Snipers in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Alba Sotorra’s Game Over
  15. 7 ‘War is Like This’: Jirga, History and Genre Tropes
  16. Index