Borders, Barriers and Grievable Lives

Based on a close reading of Ridley Scott’s war film Black Hawk Down (USA 2001; BHD), the present article investigates the formal properties through which a certain strain of war and action movies discursively constitutes the other – the enemy – as less than human. I develop the argument that the eme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pötzsch Holger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2011-11-01
Series:Nordicom Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0114