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The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, …
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R25
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Double bill featuring movies that focus on America's recent
involvement in foreign countries. In 'The Kingdom' (2007), when a
terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While
diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special
Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team
and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate
the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom,
however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious
and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a
local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on
their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless
without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate
the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew
finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi
(Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock
the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist,
hell bent on further destruction. 'Jarhead' (2006) is an adaptation
of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit
Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed
'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the
1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which
Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for
the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the
Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do
very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the
middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of
humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by
leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the
major issues in Fisherian economic thought.
Don't Mention the War examines Australian media coverage of the war
in Afghanistan. The book demonstrates how the military's public
affairs personnel have taken over many of the roles traditionally
performed by reporters and shows the restrictive affect of this on
media coverage. This tight media management is contrasted with the
more open approach of Dutch and Canadian militaries in Afghanistan,
a fact that is explained through reference to the different
positions of the military within these different nations. As
opposed to the Dutch and the Canadians, who had reputations to
rebuild, the almost uniquely exalted position of the military in
Australia has enabled and driven a media strategy tailored to
defend the Australian military's high social standing. In
Australian media coverage, the book goes on to argue, the war in
Afghanistan has then functioned as another platform for the
celebration of national military virtues. What has been offered is
less a representation of action than an affirmation of identity;
less a chronicle of unfolding events than a testament to immutable
character. *** "Foster argues convincingly that the ADF's
determination to keep an iron grip on information, based on an
entrenched cultural distain for journalists, a resistance to
scrutiny, and an obsession with protecting its reputation, meant
that what it was actually doing in Afghanistan remained a mystery.
While he attributes authorship of this mystery to the ADF
hierarchy, supported at times by politicians, journalists don't
escape his censure. His book is an indictment of the lack of
commitment by Australian editors to covering the Afghan war." - Tom
Hyland, Inside Story, January 2014
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