The Wing Beat of the Butterfly. The Causality of Asymmetric Cultural Encounters and Escalation in Babel (2006) and Valley of Wolves – Iraq/ Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak (2006)

The term ‘asymmetric conflict’ describes a war-like situation in which the opponents involved do not have equal access to decisive logistic resources. The author of this article states that cultural en­coun­ters can also be of asymmetric quality: in situations of provoked or accidental (inter)cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veronika Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Pittsburgh 2011-10-01
Series:CINEJ Cinema Journal
Online Access:http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/37