Chapter | Forty-Two
Drama : War Film
FIGURE 42.1 Close-ups capture the human drama in a war movie. (Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, ©Johncairns, Image# 8909261)
WHAT IS IT?
A drama based around events during a conflict – real or imagined.
The twentieth century was nonstop war, from Arnhem to Zagreb, Baghdad to Ypres, big wars and small wars, hot war and the cold war. No wonder then that the war film has become so popular as we try to get our heads around why all this goes on at all. But what about the twenty-first century, now that wars are kept hidden in far-off countries, with an invisible enemy? Rather than disappear in this fog, the ...
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