War in film : semiotics and conflict related sign constructions on the screen

War in film semiotics and conflict related sign constructions on the screen

The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jacob, Frank (Editor), Jacob, Frank, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Marburg, Germany : Büchner-Verlag 2022
[2022]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
War films.
Semiotics.
War > History.
Omer Fast; Steve McQueen; war film; Christopher Nolan; Roland Barthes; film aesthetics; Maya Schweizer; Alain Delon; Clemens von Wedemeyer; Fernando Frías; Mario Volpe; semiotics; war images; film narratives; national narratives; Amat Escalante; Frank Herbert; popular culture; Alessandro Blasetti
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Visual Semiotics of War (Frank Jacob)
  • The Cinematographic Face of Garibaldi. Fascist Propaganda as a Model for the War to Come (Bruno Surace)
  • Jihad in Outer Space. The Orientalist Semiotics of Frank Herbert's Dune and the Image of Lawrence of Arabia (Frank Jacob)
  • Double Dunkirk (Giuditta Bassano)
  • Alain Delon in the Franco-Algerian War: A Barthesian Myth (Nicole Beth Wallenbrock)
  • Collateral Damage: Necropolitical Lives in the Mexican Drug War (Jessica Wax-Edwards)
  • Traumatic Memory and the Commemoration of War in Video Works of Omer Fast, Steve McQueen, Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer (Cecilia Canziani)
  • Contributors.

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