War, Cinema, and Moral Anxiety

Lacy, Mark

doi:10.1177/030437540302800504

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“…39 "War movies provide a space outside of the military where 'boys' can enjoy the libidinization of gadgets." 40 This representation of war as technologically highly advanced practice abstracts war from its human consequences. But these technologies at the same time sustain dominant values of capitalist modernity, for instance, the value of technological supremacy, speed, mobility, domination, and efficiency.…”

Section: Images Of Peace: From Paintings To Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While feminist approaches tend to focus on gendered stereotypes (masculinity and femininity, gendered roles, the use of emotions), this can be broadened to other dichotomies, such as the rational/modern/civilized West vs the irrational/archaic/wild Orient. 49 But self-other relations in war movies do not necessarily have to simply reproduce binary worldviews. Lacy shows how self-other relations in Apocalypse Now Redux and Three Kings (2003) at first sight seem to stabilize specific perspectives on the relationship between self and other.…”

Section: Images Of Peace: From Paintings To Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…88 Mark Lacy argues that cinema becomes a space where "'commonsense' ideas about global politics and history are (re)produced and where stories about what is acceptable behavior from states and individuals are naturalized and legitimated." 89 In order to critically analyze such attempts at reconstructing meaning we must also study what is left out in a narrative. Brent Steele argues in this respect that critical analysis needs to enquire into the perspective of the other that may not be dominant in a movie.…”

Section: Peace Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Lacy, movies such as Three Kings may use the power of images to create moral proximity to lives of others in situations of war. 94 Peace movies, in this respect, may expose, for example, colonial violence and resistance by bringing the audience closer to the suffering of the victims (Lacy cites the example of The Battle of Algiers). To some extent, cinema has the potential of re-introducing moral anxiety in a context where decision-makers or the military aim at establishing moral certainty; in this sense, cinema may work similar to critical theory as an enlightenment project.…”

Section: Peace Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Visualizing Peace – The State of the Art

Engelkamp¹,

Roepstorff²,

Spencer³

2020

Peace & Change

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While the importance of visualization of war, conflict, and violence has gathered great momentum in disciplines such as International Relations (IR), far less has been said about the visualization of peace in IR, history, and even in Peace and Conflict Studies. 1 As Maria Elena D ıez Jorge and Francisco Muñoz Muñoz point out, "[v]iolence has received the attention, while peace and its entire semantic sphere have been left out of the spotlight". 2 It is this relative blind spot that this special issue wants to address as it aims to reflect on the politics, policy, and pedagogy of visualizing peace. Among other questions, it will reflect on how peace is visualized in cultural artifacts and what these representations of peace (and their absence) do politically. In other words, what is presented in the picture of peace and what is left out? What consequences can this have for the construction of politics? In addition, the special issue considers how visual artifacts can contribute to real-world peace after violent conflict. How can visualization in film, photography, or documentaries help build peace and contribute to conflict resolution, reconciliation, transitional justice, and peace pedagogy? If we accept the argument of the cultural turn and believe in the co-constitution of culture and politics and in the idea that cultural artifacts such as movies take part in the construction of a dichotomous understanding of self and other, thereby contributing to the legitimation of violence and conflict, then this may also work the other way around: Cultural artifacts like movies can play an important role in peace processes.When considering the visualization of peace, one must start with the conceptualization of "peace" itself. The concept and its meaning

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Section: Images Of Peace: From Paintings To Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Images Of Peace: From Paintings To Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Peace Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Peace Moviesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Visualizing Peace – The State of the Art

Engelkamp¹,

Roepstorff²,

Spencer³

2020

Peace & Change

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“…En mere generel pointe, hvad angår (krigs)film og skismaet mellem det re¬ producerende og det kritiske, findes hos Lacy (2003). Det afgørende problem, argumenterer Lacy, er (krigs)films forhold til moralsk (u)sikkerhed.…”

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