1st Edition
Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan
Introduction: Transnationalism and the War Film Genre
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
1. The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote: Cinematic Representations of American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan
Samir Dayal
2. Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha
Holger Pötzsch
3. Burdens of History, Ethics of Engagement: German Film and the Afghan War
Florian Zappe
4. Beyond ‘Us and Them’? National and Global Themes in Danish Afghanistan Films
Ib Bondebjerg
5. Heroic Soldiers, Justified Wars: Depictions of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in Polish Popular Film
Marek Paryż
6. From Inculcation to Liberation: Pop Culture-Addled Snipers in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper and Alba Sotorra's Game Over
Fareed Ismail Ben-Youssef
7. ‘War is Like This’: Jirga, History and Genre Tropes
Emma Hamilton and Paul Chojenta
Biography
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż is Associate Professor of British Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She is the author of Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction (2012) and The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 (2002), and co-editor of The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (2014) and The Enemy in Contemporary Film (2018).
Marek Paryż is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His current research focuses on the Western across narrative arts, and he has co-edited The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (2022).
