Between Unsanitized Depiction and ‘Sensory Overload’: The Deliberate Ambiguities of Generation Kill (HBO, 2008)
This article examines Generation Kill’s deliberately ambiguous discourse on war, as the series stages, in a mise en abyme, armed invasion and the spectacle of war as somewhere between orgasmic excitement and boredom – between “sensory overload” (as one Marine calls it in the last minutes of story) a...
Main Author: | Monica Michlin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures
2016-06-01
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Series: | TV Series |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/1293 |
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