Heroic Soldiers, Justified Wars
Depictions of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in Polish Popular Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914685 |
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| Authors | Marek Paryż (0000-0003-1108-2892, University of Warsaw, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-208 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2024.2323760 |
| OpenAlex | W4392445422 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Polish popular film has responded to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with two productions: the TV series Misja: Afganistan (dir. Maciej Dejczer, 2012) and the feature film Karbala (dir. Krzysztof Łukaszewicz, 2015). They do not reflect the prevailing views of the public on these two military conflicts, but rather appeal to the general imaginings about Polish wars in the course of history. As they leave out issues of politics, it is the portrayal of the soldiers that most fundamentally contributes to the construction of the perspectives on the wars in the Middle East in the films under discussion. The predominantly positive image of the Polish soldiers leads the viewer to believe that the wars in which they fought were justified. Misja: Afganistan and Karbala perpetuate the tropes entrenched in the heroic/martyrological model of representing war in Polish film through exploiting universal connotations of heroic war
Ancient history · Art · Iraq war · Literature · Political science · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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