War in Film Semiotics and Conflict Related Sign Constructions on the Screen

• Övriga skapare: Jacob, Frank (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Büchner-Verlag 2022
• Ämnen: Media studies; Film: styles & genres; Films, cinema; Omer Fast; Steve McQueen; war film; Christopher Nolan; Roland Barthes; film aesthetics; Maya Schweizer; Alain Delon; Clemens von Wedemeyer; Fernando Frías; Mario Volpe; semiotics; war images; film narratives; national narratives; Amat Escalante; Frank Herbert; popular culture; Alessandro Blasetti
• Länkar: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Sammanfattning

The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the image of heroic actions and violence on the screen. The present volume provides a deeper insight into the forces at play when war films are presented on the big screen and intends to show why and how violent conflicts often have an afterlife as visual media as well.

Fysisk beskrivning

1 electronic resource (229 p.)

ISBN

978-3-96317-852-8
9783963173035

Tillgång

Open Access