This article investigates vaporwar–a kind of military fanvid where military footage is remixed,
set to music and given a 'vaporwave'makeover through filters and editing. While a niche …

“ADVENTURE” IS A WORD USED IN THE NONACADEMIC WORLD for something fun or
unusual, as well as being a scholarly term for an archetypal story (Frye; Cawelti), a modern …

The critical consensus around Ishiro Honda's 1954 Godzilla is widely known: the creature is
a metaphor for Japan's mid-century national traumas, including firebombing, nuclear …

This book examines the television serials created by influential showrunner David Simon.
The book argues that Simon's main theme is the state of the contemporary American city and …

Contemporary warfare has been characterised as asymmetrical; with twenty-first century
conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine distinguished from the “old wars” of the …

Stratégie de sortie Page 1 Stratégie de sortie Poétique de l’asymétrie dans les fictions des
guerres d’Irak et d’Afghanistan Thèse en cotutelle Doctorat en études littéraires Diego …

Abstract Nearly 17,000 Australians served in Iraq, but memories of this experience are far
removed from the film and television representations such as American Sniper (2014), The …

Thi s article will focus on the transgressive figure of the deserting (or AWOL) soldier in
American culture. The figure of the deserting soldier runs like a controversial leitmotif …

Cette thèse a pour objet d'étudier la façon dont sont constitués et utilisés les systèmes de
références des acteurs politiques dans les conflits du Moyen-Orient, de telle sorte que ces …

This thesis argues that the perception of realism and 'truth'within narrative feature films set
within the Gulf War (1990-1991) and Iraq War (2003-2011) is bound up in other transmedia …