The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Volume 12)
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....
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-725622025-07-30T15:39:10Z The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Volume 12) Löschnigg, Martin Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena Performing Arts Film History & Criticism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism 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. 2021-11-06T05:24:46Z 2021-11-06T05:24:46Z 2021-10-29T05:31:23Z 2018 book OCN: 1041229492 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51197 9783110591217 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72562 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51197/1/external_content.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110591217 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110591217 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 Knowledge Unlatched 9783110591217 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books De Gruyter open access |
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| topic | Performing Arts Film History & Criticism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism |
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