Thomas Ærvold Bjerre
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Ærvold Bjerre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Ærvold |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjerre |
| SIGNATURE | BJERRE T Æ |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2242-8695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The “Most Dangerous Thing Around”? Representations of Women Soldiers in US War on Terror Novels
Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators
Drones have become the new face of American warfare, challenging institutional and cultural norms about what it means to be a soldier. In the context of military masculinities, I examine the representation of the US drone operators in three films: Drones (Rosenthal 2013), Good Kill (Niccol 2014), and Eye in the Sky (Hood 2015). The films feature a male-female team of drone operators and can partly be seen as counter-narratives to the official ide…
Matthew Carter's Myth of the Western
Terence McSweeney's The “War on Terror” and American Film
James Penner's Pinks, Pansies, and Punks
New men's studies, or masculinities studies as it is known today, emerged in academia in the 1990s.The movement was informed by feminist theory and attempted to demolish masculinity's normative status.James Penner's Pinks, Pansies, and Punks is one of the latest additions to the field.It presents a cultural history of macho criticism in American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s.Penner's definition of "literary culture" is broad, inclu…
Birgit Däwes' Ground Zero Fiction
Authenticity and war junkies
This article examines some of the important changes in the films (and TV-series) about the Iraq War. Focus will be on the combat films: Brian De Palma’s Redacted (2007), Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha (2007), HBO’s mini-series Generation Kill (2008), Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008), and Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone (2010). The films break from tradition by dismissing both the mythic heroism that pervades World War 2 films and the d…
The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan
The essay covers the critical reception of Mississippi‐writer Lewis Nordan from his debut in 1983 to the boost in scholarly attention in the new millennium. The essay covers newspaper reviews but pays particular attention to the many academic essays that have placed Nordan as a writer in the southern literary tradition and have highlighted themes such as magical realism, the grotesque, race relations, music, and gender
Southern Pop Culture and the Literary Tradition in O Brother, Where Art Thou
This essay discusses the Coen brothers ' movie 0 Brother, Whe re Art Thou? (2000) .Rather than reading the mo vie as a modern retelling of The Odyssey, as most critics have, it is read within a context of' Southern literature and history.The essay points out the many references to Soulhern literature, particularly William Faulkner and Flannery O 'Connor.These references, along with the mosaic of cultural icons from Soulhern history, serve to crea…
Authenticity and war junkies
This article examines some of the important changes in the films (and TV-series) about the Iraq War. Focus will be on the combat films: Brian De Palma’s Redacted (2007), Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha (2007), HBO’s mini-series Generation Kill (2008), Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008), and Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone (2010). The films break from tradition by dismissing both the mythic heroism that pervades World War 2 films and the d…
Southern Pop Culture and the Literary Tradition in O Brother, Where Art Thou
This essay discusses the Coen brothers ' movie 0 Brother, Whe re Art Thou? (2000) .Rather than reading the mo vie as a modern retelling of The Odyssey, as most critics have, it is read within a context of' Southern literature and history.The essay points out the many references to Soulhern literature, particularly William Faulkner and Flannery O 'Connor.These references, along with the mosaic of cultural icons from Soulhern history, serve to crea…
The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan
The essay covers the critical reception of Mississippi‐writer Lewis Nordan from his debut in 1983 to the boost in scholarly attention in the new millennium. The essay covers newspaper reviews but pays particular attention to the many academic essays that have placed Nordan as a writer in the southern literary tradition and have highlighted themes such as magical realism, the grotesque, race relations, music, and gender
Authenticity and war junkies
This article examines some of the important changes in the films (and TV-series) about the Iraq War. Focus will be on the combat films: Brian De Palma’s Redacted (2007), Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha (2007), HBO’s mini-series Generation Kill (2008), Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008), and Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone (2010). The films break from tradition by dismissing both the mythic heroism that pervades World War 2 films and the d…
James Penner's Pinks, Pansies, and Punks
New men's studies, or masculinities studies as it is known today, emerged in academia in the 1990s.The movement was informed by feminist theory and attempted to demolish masculinity's normative status.James Penner's Pinks, Pansies, and Punks is one of the latest additions to the field.It presents a cultural history of macho criticism in American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s.Penner's definition of "literary culture" is broad, inclu…
Birgit Däwes' Ground Zero Fiction
Terence McSweeney's The “War on Terror” and American Film
Matthew Carter's Myth of the Western
Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators
Drones have become the new face of American warfare, challenging institutional and cultural norms about what it means to be a soldier. In the context of military masculinities, I examine the representation of the US drone operators in three films: Drones (Rosenthal 2013), Good Kill (Niccol 2014), and Eye in the Sky (Hood 2015). The films feature a male-female team of drone operators and can partly be seen as counter-narratives to the official ide…
The “Most Dangerous Thing Around”? Representations of Women Soldiers in US War on Terror Novels
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