Using references to the popular World War II depictions up to 2005, Slocum poses alternatives to the portrayal of physical aggression that dominates the screen in blockbuster conflict movies using Norbert Elias’…
This journal article explores the 1981 West German film by categories (time, transnationalism, gender and sexuality amongst others), to better understand a unique film viewed from the Nazi side of the Second World War,…
This is an analysis of the disagreements over La Grande Illusion’s pacifist nature, looking into the strategies, resources, and origin of the film and how Renoir attempted to fulfill a purpose of spreading an antiwar…
This book chapter argues the 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari manifests the anxiety and trauma of immediate post-World War I Germany into one of the first horror films. Keas analyzes such elements of the film as…
Garrett Stewart argues animation and documentary-style filmmaking/writing enhance the constructed nature of memory and trauma in Ari Folman’s 2008 documentary Waltz With Bashir. This makes the film’s ending (especially…
Toles analyzes the antagonist of The Third Man (1949), Harry Lime, arguing he is an allegory for Hitler and Stalin, among others. Lime behaves in the same despotic way during peace as during war, and thus his character…
This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the 1910s until the 1950s and 1960s. These appearances were partly…
Lynette Carpenter argues the 1949 film The Third Man serves as a warning to European political powers about the dangers of the Cold War mentality, which was setting in on political leaders at the time. Carpenter offers…
McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films of comedic director Ernst Lubitsch, and how each was infused with political agenda in the decade leading up to World War II. In an era where most comedies,…
Author Stephen Harvey presents an analysis of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator, and in particular its political comedy and its relationship to the bulk of Chaplin’s film work. Harvey argues much of the…