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Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century - Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations (Paperback)
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Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century - Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations (Paperback)
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Cinematic representations of unconventional warfare have received
sporadic attention to date. However, this pattern has now begun to
change with the rise of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and the growing importance of jihadist terrorism
in the wake of 9/11. This ground-breaking study provides a
much-needed examination of global unconventional warfare in
20th-century filmmaking, with case studies from the United States,
Britain, Ireland, France, Italy and Israel. Paul B. Rich examines
Hollywood's treatment of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency
in the United States; British post-colonial insurgencies in Malaya
and Kenya and British special operations in the Second World War;
the Irish conflict before and during the Troubles; French
filmmaking and the reluctance to deal with the bitter war in
Algeria in the 1950s; Italian neorealism and its impact on films
dealing with urban insurgency by Roberto Rossellini, Nanni Loy and
Gillo Pontecorvo, and Israel and the upsurge of Palestinian
terrorism. Whilst only a small number of films on these conflicts
have been able to rise above stereotyping insurgents and terrorists
- in some cases due to a pattern of screen orientalism - Cinema and
Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century stresses the
positive political gains to be derived from humanizing terrorists
and terrorists movements, especially in the context of modern
jihadist terrorism. This is essential reading for academics,
postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in
20th-century military history, politics and international
relations, and film studies.
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