The enemy in contemporary film / edited by Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Löschnigg, Martin.

Contributor:

Löschnigg, Martin, editor.

Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena, editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Culture & conflict ; Volume 12.

Culture & conflict ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enemies in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Martin Löschnigg, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena / Löschnigg, Martin

Part I: The 'Faces' of the Enemy: Film Aesthetics and Contemporary (Geo)Politics

New Enemies, New Cold Wars: Reimagining Occupation and Military Conflict in Norway / Iversen, Gunnar

'A Murky Business': The Post-Soviet Enemy / Brintlinger, Angela

Of Monsters and Men: Forms of Evil in War Films / Pötzsch, Holger

The Domestic Enemy in British TV Documentaries on the Iraq War / Harris, Janet

Britain's Muslims as the Enemy Within in Contemporary British Cinema / Jameela, Maryam

(Re)Framing the Disembodied Public Enemy: The 'War on Drugs' in Contemporary Narrative Screen Media / Zappe, Florian

Part II: Who are the Perpetrators? Who are the Victims? Confronting Difficult Pasts and the Crisis of Identity

From 'Ivan' to Andreij: The Red Army in German Film and TV / Rau, Petra

Enemies within: Reimagining the 'Fallen Women' of World War II in Contemporary Finnish Documentary / Oisalo, Niina

The Collaborator as Enemy during the French Occupation in (Auto‐)Biographical and Post-Memory Cinema / Perret, Caroline

False Idyll: Siri's L'Ennemi Intime / McLaughlin, Noah

"Femme, je ne vous aime pas": The Enemy Within in Joachim Lafosse's A perdre la raison / Block, Marcelline

The Past as Enemy in Argentine Cinema, 1983-2000 / Ranalletti, Mario

Who Attacked Whom? The Year 1981 in Twenty-First Century Polish Feature Films / Kobielska, Maria

Part III: Do Nations Need Enemies? Transcending/Perpetuating Nationalisms

Redefining the Enemy in Contemporary Australian Anzac Cinema / Reynaud, Daniel

The Fading of Enemy Images in Contemporary Latvian Cinema / Plakans, Andrejs / Zelče, Vita

Looking for an Invisible Enemy in Israeli Film / de Lucia, Francesca

Bonds Across Borders: A Fictional Enemy in Motion on the Israeli Screen / Talmon, Miri

Bosnia Beyond Good and Evil: (De)Constructing the Enemy in Western and Post-Yugoslav Films about the 1992-1995 War / Harper, Stephen

Forbidden Bonding at the Time of the War on Terror: the Enemy as Friend in Camp X-Ray and Boys of Abu Ghraib / Paryż, Marek

Canadians and the Pacific War 1941-1945 in Anne Wheeler's A War Story and the War Between Us / Löschnigg, Martin

Lost Pasts and Unseen Enemies: The Pacific War in Recent Japanese Films / Rayner, Jonathan

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110590036

3110590034

9783110591217

3110591219

OCLC:

1041229492

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access