Welcome
Over the past three years, our student team has developed The Visualising Peace Library, an online database of bibliographic references designed to promote cross-disciplinary conversations about peace and peace-building.
The Visualising Peace Library has two core aims. Firstly, it represents a footprint for our various research projects – in particular, our Museum of Peace and the series of reports, blogs, short films and interactive tools published on our project website. Secondly, it is designed not just to reflect the research that we have been doing but also to stimulate and expand future research. In bringing together a wide range of publications, from different disciplines and sectors, we aim to stretch and inspire new habits of studying, learning and thinking about peace.
We are building a growing portfolio of blogs and presentations to complement the resources we have gathered together in the Visualising Peace Library. Students from different disciplines have taken time to highlight particular items or connections and contrasts between items which have struck them as offering fresh insights into peace or peace-building. We hope that you find these stimulating as you explore the wider Library.
You can browse the resources we have gathered together via the Library button below, or click on Learning Journeys to be guided through some of our resources by members of the Visualising Peace team. You can also dip into a ‘pot luck’ selection of our latest library entries at the bottom of this page, and explore some of the themes we cover via the cloud of ‘tags’ on the right.
How Inglourious Basterds Breaks through American Screen Memory
Setka, Stella. 2015. in Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, 3 (2): 141-169. A critical analysis of Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ and the film’s exploration of the…
Saving Private Ryan and Postwar Memory in America
Bodnar, John. 2001. in The American Historical Review, 106 (3): 805-817. This article uses Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ to examine the trends of postwar films in the United…
Full Metal Genre: Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam Combat Movie
Doherty, Thomas. 1989. in Film Quarterly 42(2): 24-30. Doherty observes the characteristics Kubrick employs in Full Metal Jacket that make it a modern classic, and more specifically its…
The Imagination of Disaster
Sontag, Susan. 1965. in Commentary Magazine. Sontag carries out a criticism on audience response to 1950’s science fiction films seemingly drawing from the apocalyptic experiences in Hiroshima and…
Antiwar Themes In Narrative War Films: Soldiers’ Experiences As Social Comment
Donald, Ralph R. 1991. in Studies in Popular Culture, 13 (2): 77-92. Donald explores the growing production of war films in the industry and how a trend in…
The ‘Anti-Militarism’ of Stanley Kubrick
Burgess, Jackson. 1964. in Film Quarterly, 18 (1): 4-11. Mainly drawing upon Kubrick’s ‘Paths of Glory’ and ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ the article attempts to debunk Kubrick’s complex moral vision,…
Cinema and the Civilizing Process: Rethinking Violence in the World War II Combat Film
Slocum, David J. 2005. in Cinema Journal, 44 (3): 35-63. Using references to the popular World War II depictions up to 2005, Slocum poses alternatives to the portrayal…
“Das Boot” and the German Cinema of Neoliberalism
Baer, Hester. 2012. in The German Quarterly, 85 (1): 18-39. This journal article explores the 1981 West German film by categories (time, transnationalism, gender and sexuality amongst others),…
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