This article examines the relationship between comedy and war, seeking to understand why comedy is used so often in war narratives. It surveys a wide range of literature, from Aristophanes’s Ancient Greek plays to Don…
Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. “Probing peace journalism: The discursive construction of blackness within the racial democracy of Colombia.” Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206. Peace journalism, the…
This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people responsible for the organisation of mass killings, as well as individual criminals in isolated villages. Saul…
This article deals simultaneously with journalists’ political and personal orientations and with the challenges that inherently go with reporting on fresh attempts at reaching peace. What influences the agenda of…
The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors examining the processes in retrospect, adds nuance to this…
An exploration of the gender roles presents in soldiers throughout the war, examining how the existence of beliefs in these roles determined the attitudes towards violence and conflict. Link:…
Donald explores the growing production of war films in the industry and how a trend in using individual soldier’s narratives allows for succesful humanizing of conflict and the creation of pacifist attitudes. Link:…
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 examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with religion in his later years. Semmler connects each of these facets of…
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…