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The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Hardcover)
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The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Hardcover)
Series: Culture & Conflict
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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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