Transnational Film and the Us Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

This volume fills in the gap in the existing war film criticism by offering insights into how the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) and the Iraq War (2003-2011) have been represented in popular and documentary filmic productions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Spain, and Australia.

List of contents

Introduction: Transnationalism and the War Film Genre 1. The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote: Cinematic Representations of American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan 2. Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha 3. Burdens of History, Ethics of Engagement: German Film and the Afghan War 4. Beyond 'Us and Them'? National and Global Themes in Danish Afghanistan Films 5. Heroic Soldiers, Justified Wars: Depictions of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in Polish Popular Film 6. From Inculcation to Liberation: Pop Culture-Addled Snipers in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper and Alba Sotorra's Game Over 7. 'War is Like This': Jirga, History and Genre Tropes

About the author

Marzena Soköowska-Pary¿ is Associate Professor of British Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She is the author of Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction (2012) and The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 (2002), and co-editor of The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (2014) and The Enemy in Contemporary Film (2018).
Marek Pary¿ is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His current research focuses on the Western across narrative arts, and he has co-edited The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (2022).

Summary

This volume fills in the gap in the existing war film criticism by offering insights into how the Afghanistan War (2001–2021) and the Iraq War (2003–2011) have been represented in popular and documentary filmic productions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Spain, and Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Marzena Paryz Sokolowska-Paryz
• Assisted by: Marek Paryż (Editor), Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032939810
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3293981-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Afghanistan, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Iraq, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Battles & campaigns, Specific wars and campaigns, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General