The Enemy in Contemporary Film

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

The Enemy in Contemporary Film

Edited by: Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 12 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110591217

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż and Martin Löschnigg Open Access Download PDF	1
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 Gunnar Iversen Open Access Download PDF	19
‘A Murky Business’: The Post-Soviet Enemy Angela Brintlinger Open Access Download PDF	35
Of Monsters and Men: Forms of Evil in War Films Holger Pötzsch Open Access Download PDF	53
The Domestic Enemy in British TV Documentaries on the Iraq War Janet Harris Open Access Download PDF	73
Britain’s Muslims as the Enemy Within in Contemporary British Cinema Maryam Jameela Open Access Download PDF	91
(Re)Framing the Disembodied Public Enemy: The ‘War on Drugs’ in Contemporary Narrative Screen Media Florian Zappe Open Access Download PDF	105
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 Petra Rau Open Access Download PDF	121
Enemies within: Reimagining the ‘Fallen Women’ of World War II in Contemporary Finnish Documentary Niina Oisalo Open Access Download PDF	145
The Collaborator as Enemy during the French Occupation in (Auto‐)Biographical and Post-Memory Cinema Caroline Perret Open Access Download PDF	159
False Idyll: Siri’s L’Ennemi Intime Noah McLaughlin Open Access Download PDF	177
“Femme, je ne vous aime pas”: The Enemy Within in Joachim Lafosse’s A perdre la raison Marcelline Block Open Access Download PDF	197
The Past as Enemy in Argentine Cinema, 1983–2000 Mario Ranalletti Open Access Download PDF	219
Who Attacked Whom? The Year 1981 in Twenty-First Century Polish Feature Films Maria Kobielska Open Access Download PDF	233
Part III: Do Nations Need Enemies? Transcending/Perpetuating Nationalisms
Redefining the Enemy in Contemporary Australian Anzac Cinema Daniel Reynaud Open Access Download PDF	253
The Fading of Enemy Images in Contemporary Latvian Cinema Andrejs Plakans and Vita Zelče Open Access Download PDF	271
Looking for an Invisible Enemy in Israeli Film Francesca de Lucia Open Access Download PDF	293
Bonds Across Borders: A Fictional Enemy in Motion on the Israeli Screen Miri Talmon Open Access Download PDF	309
Bosnia Beyond Good and Evil: (De)Constructing the Enemy in Western and Post-Yugoslav Films about the 1992–1995 War Stephen Harper Open Access Download PDF	327
Forbidden Bonding at the Time of the War on Terror: the Enemy as Friend in Camp X-Ray and Boys of Abu Ghraib Marek Paryż Open Access Download PDF	345
Canadians and the Pacific War 1941–1945 in Anne Wheeler’s A War Story and the War Between Us Martin Löschnigg Open Access Download PDF	361
Lost Pasts and Unseen Enemies: The Pacific War in Recent Japanese Films Jonathan Rayner Open Access Download PDF	377
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	395
Index Open Access Download PDF	401

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of film studies and media studies, cultural memory studies, history and political science
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 413
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 21
Keywords: Film; enemy images; cultural memory; war

eBook

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110591217

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110589924

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110709087