Zero Dark Thirty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5703315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Power (0000-0002-4719-6202, corresponding author), R G Powers, Robert Powers (0000-0001-9948-6837, College of Staten Island, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 303-305 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat180 |
| OpenAlex | W2312608213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty is an exercise in instant history and hot-after-the-fact mythmaking, a dramatization of the events leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy Seals (Sea-Air-Land Teams) in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. Based on firsthand accounts, it is history and myth, mythic history, and historical myth. But it is also frankly a theatrical film and does not pretend to be a documentary. The look of documentary filmmaking is confined to the actual raid itself (to stirring dramatic effect). The film was made under extraordinary time constraints: In spring 2011 Bigelow and the screenwriter Mark Boal had finished a screenplay on the Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan that failed to find and kill bin Laden. Filming was about to begin when news broke of bin Laden's killing in May 2011. They abandoned the Tora Bora film and, between May 2011 and the
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Battle · Drama · Dramatization · Filmmaking · Literature · Movie theater · Mythology · Siren (mythology · History · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |