War film

The war film genre includes films about warfare, including naval, air or land battles. Films in this genre may focus on the battles, prisoners of war, military training, life during wartime or morality and humanitarian issues of warfare. This genre commonly includes works of fiction, works based on historical facts and occasionally works based on alternate-history fiction. According to American Cinema/American Culture, the genre also includes four narrative elements: the suspension of morality during

The Vietnam film is a specific sub-genre of the conventional Hollywood war film that arose as a result of the 1960s counter culture. According to Elliot Stegall’s article Ideological, Dystopic, and Antimythopoetic Formations of Masculinity in the Vietnam War Film many American war films depicted the glorification of war and emphasized the concept of American masculinity (Stegall). Previous to the Vietnam period, Hollywood war films stuck to contemporary tropes. These films often re-enact the idea

The war film genre includes films about warfare, including naval, air or land battles. Films in this genre may focus on the battles, prisoners of war, military training, life during wartime or morality and humanitarian issues of warfare. This genre commonly includes works of fiction, works based on historical facts and occasionally works based on alternate-history fiction. According to American Cinema/American Culture, the genre also includes four narrative elements: the suspension of morality during

How does the director Steven Spielberg, use film techniques to convey one or more themes in his film, War of the Worlds? Steven Spielberg utilizes many techniques, in his film, War of the Worlds, including camera work, actors and sound effects to convey various themes such as family relationships. An initial scene, ‘Eve of the War’, establishes the relationships amongst the family especially around the central character Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) which are built upon in ‘Coming of the Invaders’. ‘Worst

The Cold War was a clash between the Capitalists in American and the Communism in USSR, which are both to blame for the starting of the war. In the latter half of the twentieth century is the central place of American civilization in which Stephen Whitfield gives us an inside to the world as it once was and how it is now a thing of the past. Stephen’s goal was to open the eyes to those who were not around during this time and to those who were, might bring up ancient memories of how things used to

documentary Style Wars (1983) is about the emergence of graffiti, breaking-dancing, hip-hop, and rap in the early 1980s. Directed by Tony Silver and co-produced by Henry Chalfant, Style Wars delves deep inside the underground and mysterious world of the New York City cultural scene, primarily in Brooklyn, which helped create the conditions and environment for cultural evolution spread across the United States and eventually the world. The producers' original intention was to make a film about hip-hop

and We Were Soldiers. • Look at how grief was shown in the war films using production techniques Introduction- War films incorporate many emotions to create mood and effect on the viewers. Among these emotions lays grief, which may be seen as one of the key aspects of a war film. War is destructive and horrendous and it leaves behind a path of damage, death and a lifetime of pain for all involved. War films try to capture the essence of war and try to put the viewer into the positions of those who

We all have watched a gory war film with a conflict and a gleeful ending. Some are portrayed as non-fictional accurate events while in reality they aren’t as accurate as we think. In the Pearl Harbor film, the fundamental facts are correct. For example, the U.S. did know where the attack was going to occur, but they did not know where. While the general facts are correct, the slight details were incorrect. For instance, the Japanese planes in real life were grey not green, the ritual that was shown

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial American conflicts of the twentieth century. Debate as to why so many American soldiers died for a goal that was not achieved. Many directors have attempted to recreate the disturbing realities of the war through films like The Deer Hunter, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. While others were criticized for creating an unrealistic depiction of it like The Green Berets. “” Marine Captain Bret Shomaker observed, “When John Wayne got killed, that’s it, he

successfully prevent unneeded death. In the Fog of War film, this lesson is shown in two different ways. One way in which it is successfully used and another way in which it is not used. Empathy was used in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The President of the United States and his advisors attempted to get inside the head of the Russians. By empathizing with them, they were able to come to the conclusion that no one wanted to go to a nuclear war and that it could be