Studying the Hurt Locker
Auteur Publishing In Partnership With Liverpool University Press
Paperback 120 pages English Jul 02, 2019
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In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (2009), its stylistic and narrative devices, its cultural impact, its reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film. McSweeney places the film in a richly textured historical, political, and industrial context, arguing that The Hurt Locker is part of a long tradition of films about American wars that play a considerable role in how audiences come to understand the conflicts that they depict. Thus, films about a nation's wars are never "only a movie" but rather should be considered a cultural battleground themselves on which a war of representation is waged.
- Author:
- Terence McSweeney
- Publisher:
- Auteur Publishing In Partnership With Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:
- Jul 02, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 120 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1911325736
- ISBN-13:
- 9781911325734