Evangelista, Matthew.
Gender, Nationalism, and War : Conflict on the Movie Screen. - 1 online resource (305 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Virginia Woolf's purse -- War as a mostly male activity -- Hypotheses on gender, nationalism, and war -- Masculinity, femininity, and violence in the American Western -- Trailer: gender and nationalist violence on film -- 2 Algeria: a world constructed out of ruins -- Colonial exploitation and discrimination -- Gender roles before the independence movement -- Origins of the Algerian war -- Subverting stereotypes in The Battle of Algiers -- Pontecorvo's neorealism and its limits -- Algeria after independence -- The proliferation of small (misogynist) men -- Legacies of violence -- 3 Yugoslavia: archetype or anomaly? -- Yugoslavia's history: conflict and coexistence -- What constitutes difference? Bosnia's ephemeral ethnicity -- Grievance and greed: economic sources of conflict -- Media manipulation: "Television was more important than history" -- Women and nationalism in Yugoslavia -- Gender and the wars -- Pretty Village, Pretty Flame -- 4 Chechnya: virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Two centuries of Russo-Chechen relations -- Solidifying stereotypes in Chechnya -- Socio-economic change and the demise of the Soviet model -- Chechnya's bid for independence -- War after war -- Women, violence, and Islam -- Gender between tradition and modernity -- Sexual violence and the limits of peacemaking -- Chechnya on screen -- From romantic realism to crude caricature -- From "White Stockings" to "Black Widows" -- Gender role reversal and the promise of redemption -- 5 Québec: oui, no, or femme -- Origins of French Canadian nationalism -- Women and the early nationalist movement -- The Quiet Revolution -- Language and sovereignty -- The FLQ and the October Crisis -- No: "The culture survives because of the mothers" -- Yvette and the 1980 referendum. Choosing not to choose: "So what's the problem?" -- 6 "To live to see better times": gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Nationalism -- Sovereignty -- Equality -- Sequel: gender and nationalist violence on film -- Index.
A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.
9781139080552
Men in motion pictures.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Political violence in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
War films -- History and criticism.
Women -- Political activity.
Women in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.W6 E73 2011
791.436581
Gender, Nationalism, and War : Conflict on the Movie Screen. - 1 online resource (305 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Virginia Woolf's purse -- War as a mostly male activity -- Hypotheses on gender, nationalism, and war -- Masculinity, femininity, and violence in the American Western -- Trailer: gender and nationalist violence on film -- 2 Algeria: a world constructed out of ruins -- Colonial exploitation and discrimination -- Gender roles before the independence movement -- Origins of the Algerian war -- Subverting stereotypes in The Battle of Algiers -- Pontecorvo's neorealism and its limits -- Algeria after independence -- The proliferation of small (misogynist) men -- Legacies of violence -- 3 Yugoslavia: archetype or anomaly? -- Yugoslavia's history: conflict and coexistence -- What constitutes difference? Bosnia's ephemeral ethnicity -- Grievance and greed: economic sources of conflict -- Media manipulation: "Television was more important than history" -- Women and nationalism in Yugoslavia -- Gender and the wars -- Pretty Village, Pretty Flame -- 4 Chechnya: virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Two centuries of Russo-Chechen relations -- Solidifying stereotypes in Chechnya -- Socio-economic change and the demise of the Soviet model -- Chechnya's bid for independence -- War after war -- Women, violence, and Islam -- Gender between tradition and modernity -- Sexual violence and the limits of peacemaking -- Chechnya on screen -- From romantic realism to crude caricature -- From "White Stockings" to "Black Widows" -- Gender role reversal and the promise of redemption -- 5 Québec: oui, no, or femme -- Origins of French Canadian nationalism -- Women and the early nationalist movement -- The Quiet Revolution -- Language and sovereignty -- The FLQ and the October Crisis -- No: "The culture survives because of the mothers" -- Yvette and the 1980 referendum. Choosing not to choose: "So what's the problem?" -- 6 "To live to see better times": gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Nationalism -- Sovereignty -- Equality -- Sequel: gender and nationalist violence on film -- Index.
A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.
9781139080552
Men in motion pictures.
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Political violence in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
War films -- History and criticism.
Women -- Political activity.
Women in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.W6 E73 2011
791.436581