Cultural Hauntings: Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Films about the Iraq War
Societies come to terms with the “unfinished business” of past wars through obsessive retellings of their traumatic histories (Bronfen 2012). Combat films therefore are a powerful cultural arena wherein collective memories are negotiated. While movies about twentieth-century wars have received much...
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| Language: | English |
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |
| Online Access: | http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/6734 |