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Embodiment in the war film : Paradise Now and The Hurt Locker
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dc.contributor.author | Burgoyne, Robert James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-10T11:31:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-04-10T11:31:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-06-12 | |
dc.identifier | 17442673 | |
dc.identifier | a9c7e225-453a-4c43-bd67-e9916bec2293 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Burgoyne , R J 2012 , ' Embodiment in the war film : Paradise Now and The Hurt Locker ' , Journal of War & Culture Studies , vol. 5 , no. 1 , pp. 7-19 . https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.5.1.7_1 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1752-6272 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/3473 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this article I compare two recent films that foreground the body at risk in the new wars of the twenty-first century. Paradise Now (Abu-Assad, 2005) and The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2008) convey the subject of the body in war from what would seem to be opposing perspectives, the first representing the experience of a resistance fighter, a suicide bomber in present-day Palestine, and the latter rendering the perceptions of a US soldier, the leader of a bomb disposal squad in Iraq. Seeming opposites, antitheses of each other, the two protagonists and the two films can be set face to face in a way that brings the changing nature of modern war into frame. No longer defined by the ideology of total war that shaped the grand narratives of twentieth-century combat, the new imagery of war and resistance, of insurgency and counter-insurgency, is crystallized here in a new symbolic iteration of the body at risk. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.format.extent | 473266 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of War & Culture Studies | en |
dc.subject | Suicide bombing | en |
dc.subject | Combat films | en |
dc.subject | Embodiment | en |
dc.subject | Post-heroic war | en |
dc.subject | War films | en |
dc.subject | Body at risk | en |
dc.subject | PN1993 Motion Pictures | en |
dc.subject | SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PN1993 | en |
dc.title | Embodiment in the war film : Paradise Now and The Hurt Locker | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Film Studies | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1386/jwcs.5.1.7_1 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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