‘The very worst things’: violence and vulnerability in Djamila Sahraoui’s<i>Yema</i>(2012)

Flood, Maria

doi:10.1080/14715880.2018.1511182

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“…The ambiguity of war against terrorism is more obvious when we find out that it is not only the terrorists but mostly civilians who always become collateral damage. In this film, it is stated through the appearance of Alia in the very close spot of the target and becomes the real victim [18].…”

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The Discourse of Ambiguity of Modern Drone Warfare in “Eye in the Sky”

Rahayu¹,

Mediyansyah²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Quran and Hadith Studies Information Technology and Media

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Modern warfare is one of popular themes in Hollywood and western films especially after the discourse of "war against terror." This British-production film, "Eye in the Sky" narrates war against terrorism in a unique and detailed way, instead of in black and white perspective. This paper argues that modern war presents many levels of ambiguity. It is aimed at discussing the discourse of ambiguity of modern drone warfare in the film "Eyes of the Sky." This study applies Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis, covering three levels of analysis, micro, macro, and mezzo. Micro level deals with language devices such as words, specific terms, metaphors. Macro level relates with social, political context, and mezzo level deals with the discourse bridging the language in use and social political context. The discourse of ambiguity can be found in many ways, ambiguity of modernness of the warfare devices and weapon when it counters the simplicity of real life of the people in Kenya that becomes 'collateral damage.' Ambiguity is also seen in decision making, in which Colonel Powell, the leader of the mission, changed the "capture" into "kill" terrorists and faces many ambiguities of the officers in charge of making decision for launching the missiles.

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The Discourse of Ambiguity of Modern Drone Warfare in “Eye in the Sky”

Rahayu¹,

Mediyansyah²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Quran and Hadith Studies Information Technology and Media

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Ethics, Gender and Vulnerability in the Films of Mia Hansen-Løve

Ince

2020

Film-Philosophy

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This article introduces some contemporary philosophical approaches to vulnerability including that of Judith Butler, while focusing on feminist legal theorist Martha Albertson Fineman's concept of the vulnerable subject, developed out of Fineman's earlier critiques of the autonomous, self-sufficient subject of liberal political philosophy. It then looks closely at the different forms of vulnerability exhibited by the leading protagonists of Mia Hansen-Løve's All Is Forgiven (2007), Father of My Children (2009), Goodbye First Love (2011), Eden (2014) and Maya (2018), all of whom except one are men, drawing on Lawrence Schehr's writing about French postmodern masculinities and work by Geneviève Sellier on the changing dynamics of heterosexual gender relations in French cinema in order to forge an account of vulnerable male bodies and masculinities appropriate to the contemporary context(s) of the films discussed. To conclude, it returns to Fineman to suggest that her at least implicitly feminist concept of the vulnerable subject can offer a more persuasive account of the gendered character of vulnerability in Hansen-Løve's films than can Butler's recent ethical writings.

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‘The very worst things’: violence and vulnerability in Djamila Sahraoui’sYema(2012)

Cited by 2 publications

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The Discourse of Ambiguity of Modern Drone Warfare in “Eye in the Sky”

The Discourse of Ambiguity of Modern Drone Warfare in “Eye in the Sky”

Ethics, Gender and Vulnerability in the Films of Mia Hansen-Løve

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