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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461474703321

Autore

Evangelista Matthew <1958->

Titolo

Gender, nationalism, and war : conflict on the movie screen / / Matthew Evangelista [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22038-6

1-139-06364-2

1-283-11135-7

9786613111357

1-139-07599-3

0-511-74004-2

1-139-07826-7

1-139-07025-8

1-139-08055-5

1-139-08282-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

791.42/6581

Soggetti

Women in motion pictures

War films - History and criticism

Sex role in motion pictures

Nationalism in motion pictures

Political violence in motion pictures

Men in motion pictures

Women - Political activity

Violence in women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Virginia Woolf's purse -- Algeria : a world constructed out of ruins -- Yugoslavia : archetype or anomaly? -- Chechnya : virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Québec : oui, no, or femme -- 'To live to see better times' : gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Sequel : gender and nationalist violence on film.



Sommario/riassunto

Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In The Battle of Algiers, female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. Prisoner of the Mountains shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and political context to these and other films, Matthew Evangelista identifies the key role that economic decline plays in threatening masculine identity and provoking the misogynistic violence that often accompanies nationalist wars.