Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha.
This article conducts a critical reading of the British war films Mark of Cain (Munden, M., 2007. Mark of Cain) and Battle for Haditha (Broomfield, N., 2007. Battle for Haditha.). Establishing the significance of cultural representations for politics and collective memory, I first locate both films...
| Publicado en: | Journal of War & Culture Studies Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 138 - 154 |
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