A 'Toxic Genre'
The Iraq War Films
Over the last five years, a cycle of films has emerged addressing the ongoing Iraq conflict. Some became well-known and one of them, The Hurt Locker, won a string of Oscars. But many others disappeared into obscurity. What is it about these films that led Variety to dub them a 'toxic genre'?Martin Barker analyses the production and reception of these recent Iraq war films. Among the issues he examines are the borrowing of soldiers' YouTube styles of self-representation to generate an 'authentic' Iraq experience, and how they take refuge in 'apolitical' post-traumatic stress disorder. Barker also looks afresh at some classic issues in film the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78371-448-3
- EAN: 9781783714483
- Produktnummer: 24017886
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'080 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 16 photographs
Über den Autor
Martin Barker is Research Professor at Aberystwyth University. He has researched and published widely on topics ranging from comic books, censorship campaigns, arguments over 'dangerous media'. He is the author of A Toxic Genre (Pluto, 2011) and From Antz to Titanic (Pluto, 2000).
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