Gender, Nationalism, and War : Conflict on the Movie Screen.

By: Evangelista, MatthewMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139080552Subject(s): 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 picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender, Nationalism, and War : Conflict on the Movie ScreenDDC classification: 791.436581 LOC classification: PN1995.9.W6 E73 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.
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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.

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