A revaluation of the film ‘Judgement at Nuremberg’ as an antithesis of the ‘Hollywoodization’ of the Holocaust. By examining the historical context, the Adolf Eichmann trial, Frost argues for the brilliance of its…
This article uses Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ to examine the trends of postwar films in the United States of America, examining how Spielberg focuses his art in the glorification of patriotic sacrifice rather…
Doherty observes the characteristics Kubrick employs in Full Metal Jacket that make it a modern classic, and more specifically its portrayal of the Vietnam War, as a new genre of war movie and the complexity of…
Sontag carries out a criticism on audience response to 1950’s science fiction films seemingly drawing from the apocalyptic experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She defends the inappropriate nature of public…
This book is a sequel to Johnson’s Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War and aims to investigate how the West developed and perpetuated the notion of ‘just war’ while simultaneously analysing concepts of…
This book explores the growth and development of the pacifist movement in historical English foreign policy, examining how foundational concepts of ‘Just’ War came to be replaced by a Christian anxiety and a concern…
This piece provides an introduction to Peace Studies within History, emphasising the social nature of the study. Dungen and Wittner stress the importance of peace studies within history as ‘rediscovering’ those…
Gittings examines the theoretical element of histories of peace, drawing connections to IR whilst speaking of four strands of the ‘realist approach’, the theory of ‘justwar’, the ‘continuous narrative of peace’ and…
Alonso emphasises the question ‘but what about women?’ when looking at political peace-building enterprises, emphasising how women in America used peaceful methods to petition, alongside opposing war. She investigates…
Cortright undertakes a historical analysis of the creation of Peace organisations from the eighteenth century through to the early twentieth century, predominantly in Europe and the USA. He begins by investigating the…