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Cultural Peace Work in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Louise Harrington
While regarded as an exemplar of a successfully resolved conflict since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided place. The discord between Republican an...
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Soldier-Spy: The National Security State and the 1960s World War II Spy Film Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Maxim Tvorun-Dunn
This article examines Cold War-era representations of WWII, observing the visible influence that sixties’ espionage media had on retrospective images of WWII. Representations of bunkers in the post...
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Heroic Soldiers, Justified Wars: Depictions of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in Polish Popular Film Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Marek Paryż
Polish popular film has responded to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with two productions: the TV series Misja: Afganistan (dir. Maciej Dejczer, 2012) and the feature film Karbala (dir. Krzysztof ...
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Tim Hetherington and conflict imagery Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Katy Parry, Greg Brockett, Sarah Maltby
Published in Journal of War & Culture Studies (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Afterword to the Special Issue on Tim Hetherington Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Robert Burgoyne
Published in Journal of War & Culture Studies (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Killing Time: Homosocial Bonding Behind the Front Line in Tim Hetherington’s Infidel Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Paul Lowe
Even in intense combat scenarios, a significant proportion of a soldier's time is spent passing the time. Tim Hetherington was acutely aware of this contradiction; of the 240 pages of Infidel, his ...
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Transnational memories of war and conflict in Aotearoa/New Zealand Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Andrea Hepworth
This article analyses the ways in which the memory of transnational traumatic events of war and conflict of the past have been represented at Wellington's waterfront and whether the site, with its ...
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Restaging Afghanistan: Trapped in the Cycle of Conflict Photographies Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Simon Popple
Western, especially British interventions in Afghanistan, parallel the long history of photography. This article examines the resulting archive and considers its ongoing influence on the traditions...
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Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Holger Pötzsch
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 ...
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Burdens of History, Ethics of Engagement: German Film and the Afghan War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Florian Zappe
Based on the analysis of two contemporary German films on the war in Afghanistan – Auslandseinsatz (Till Endemann, 2012) and Zwischen Welten (Feo Aladag, 2014) – through the philosophical lens of t...
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The Aesthetic Influences of War: A Phenomenology of Tim Hetherington’s ‘Feedback Loop’ Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Mark Gilks
One of the artistic motivations and main contributions of the late war photographer Tim Hetherington was to visually explain how young men fighting in war are influenced by representations of war—a...
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Examining the Tim Hetherington Collection Through Visually-Led Public Engagement Workshops Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Katy Parry, Greg Brockett, Katy Thornton
War photography scholarship tends to focus attention on photographers’ lives and the thematic content of images. This study shifts the spotlight onto how varied members of the public respond to a b...
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Reconstructing the peacekeeper: the televised sense-making of Sweden’s shifting policy on the use of force after the military failure in Bosnia 1995 Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Tua Sandman
This article interrogates how the shift to a more robust mandate in Bosnia was made intelligible to the Swedish TV audience. The turn to peace-enforcement and NATO command in December 1995 represen...
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‘Banned wherever truth is banned’: allied airborne propaganda, cultural information warfare, and targeting Nazi Germany with ‘news’ from the sky (1944-1945) Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Elisabeth Fondren
This article explores notions of ‘truth’ and ‘factuality’ in war news, transnational aerial propaganda campaigns, and the persuasive techniques used by U.S. military propaganda troops during World ...
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Women at the front: remediating gendered notions of WWII heroism in historical re-enactment Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Lise Zurné
Historical re-enactments have become an increasingly popular topic in academic debate, as some scholars argue that re-enactments allow participants to critically investigate history and its represe...
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Backwards into the Future: Melodramatic Affect and the Vicissitudes of Time in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (2017) Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Jonna Eagle
This article interrogates the reworking of melodramatic form in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (2017), exploring how the film’s innovative structures are founded upon—and draw us toward —familiar orie...
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New Directions in War and Culture Studies. An Early Career Special Issue Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Martin Hurcombe
This short article introduces this special issue which features the work of early career researchers and marks the retirement of the final founding member from the editorial team. It begins with a history of the Journal of War & Culture Studies and an analysis of its contribution to the field. It argues that JWCS has played a leading role in constituting and shaping this field by creating a forum in
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A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in ‘Front Line’ Counterinsurgency, 1948–2014 Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Hannah West
This conceptual paper critically analyses how the British Army exercises control over the production of knowledge about women’s war labour in ‘front line combat’ and how women exert agency to resist this. 2018 saw all British military roles opened to women, yet it is a myth to say that women are only now able to serve in ‘front line combat’. The paper reveals a complex negotiated gender order or ‘bargain’
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The Argonauts of the Western Front – Poets as Ethnographers of the Culture de Guerre in the First World War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz
For over a century, historians and literary critics appear to have been at odds regarding the poetry of the First World War. This schism owes itself to processes of canonization which restrict (in Britain) or completely ignore (in France) the full extent and diversity of wartime poetic practices. Investigating a new corpus of French poets of the First World War, and considering poetry as a social and
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‘Entangled in War Stories’ – Affect and Representations of War Narratives in Fanvids Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny
This article introduces war-themed fan productions as a medium to tell and spread war narratives, using the example of YouTube fan videos (fanvids). These remixes of third-party audio-visual resources provide information about which and in what way military conflicts are remembered by amateur creators. Based on online ethnographic research and quantitative and qualitative video analysis, the author
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As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Fredrik Krohn Andersson, Mattias Frihammar
In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage s...
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The Art of Drone Warfare Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Beryl Pong
The increasing prevalence of drone strikes, and the expanding applications of drones in different industries, are dissolving the boundaries between military and civilian realms. This special issue considers 'the art of drone warfare' by surveying the field of scholarship on drone warfare and drone art to date. It addresses the affective, discursive, technopolitical, and colonial histories underpinning
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Ethical Issues Relating to the Use of Autonomous Armed Drones in Promotional Videos Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Peter Burt
This article considers how autonomous drone systems are portrayed in three promotional videos published by military-industrial advocates of such technology. The videos are reviewed to explore ethical issues relating to armed drones and autonomous systems in warfare. The manner in which each video depicts technology, humans, and human-machine interactions is analysed in the context of sociotechnical
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Blame the War, Not the Troops: Good Kill Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Alex Adams
The 2014 feature film Good Kill is a case study of how hegemonic popular culture can defang and absorb critiques of military discourse. Although this film articulates a limited critique of drone warfare, its major task is to normalize drone warfare in three ways. First, it presents a romanticized view of the ‘clean’ military capabilities of drone weaponry. Second, the film shows ordinary soldiers as
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The Drone Eats with Me: The Violent Intimacy of Life under Drones in Atef Abu Saif’s Gaza Diary Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Sophia Brown
This article analyses The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (2015) by Atef Abu Saif, which documents Israel's military offensive against Gaza in 2014. It argues that the aesthetic choices Abu Saif makes are indicative of his status as a Palestinian author producing a work of testimony for a non-Palestinian readership. Written in English, the text clearly aims to persuade its readers of the challenges
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Drones as Machines of Sacrifice: Enframing the Zoological Components of On-Screen Warfare Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Madonna Kalousian
This article examines how drone warfare transforms the targeted region into a zone of indistinction governed by anthropocentrism. Alwazir’s ‘Yemen Inside Out’, Behram’s ‘Not a Bugsplat’ portrait, and Chishty’s drone art undo the dehumanising rhetoric of ‘Bugsplat’, the US drone software, by redefining the distance between what is being targeted on the ground and drone pilots conducting on-screen assaults
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An Investigation into Trevor Paglen’s Drones Photographs, Military Targeting, and Looking Slowly Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-22 S. F. Maxwell
The technology of unilateral remote warfare develops continuously, and with it, an ever-rising threat to human lives and freedom from an array of actors, mostly state powers, that seek to use oppressive force against civilian populations. Trevor Paglen is a political visual artist, whose project Drones represents military operations and resources in ways that recontextualize the processes of visual
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Language, Cognition, and Drone Warfare: Applying Cognitive Linguistic Tools in the Critical Analysis of Drone Discourses Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Matthew Voice
This paper presents a cognitively oriented analysis of metaphorical and descriptive language, showing how an understanding of cognitive linguistics can be employed by scholars working on drone texts to enhance and support their analyses. Cognitive linguistics provides a powerful framework for understanding the conceptual structure of language, and the choices made by authors in the ways they choose
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Mourning the Dead of the Great Escape: POWs, Grief, and the Memorial Vault of Stalag Luft III Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
In March 1944 seventy-six Allied prisoners of war escaped from Stalag Luft III. Nearly all were recaptured; fifty were later shot. This article examines what happened in the period between recapture and the interment of the dead prisoners' cremated remains at Stalag Luft III. It positions what came to be known as ‘the Great Escape’ as an event of deep emotional resonance for those who grieved and reveals
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Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Rachel Woodward, Matthew C. Benwell, K. Neil Jenkings, Eleonora Natale, Helen Parr
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. The special issue highlights the diversity of practices of cultural production in response to the war and its legacy. The articles examine: how
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Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction? Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Helen Parr
This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, the war was regarded as politically divisive. Since the 1990s, political divisions faded, and the perspectives of veterans, particularly as represented in
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Diplomatic Memories: Remembering the Falklands/Malvinas War Through the Diplomatic Practices of Argentina and the Falkland Islands Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Matthew C. Benwell, Alasdair Pinkerton
Studies of memory in relation to the Falklands/Malvinas War have typically focused on interrogating narratives, practices and performances associated with its memory within different national contexts (predominantly Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK). Far less attention, however, has been placed on how memory of the war is summoned on the international stage, in diplomatic settings like the
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From Campo de Mayo to Malvinas, and Back: The Falklands/Malvinas War from the Perspective of Argentine Veterans Accused of Crimes Against Humanity Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Eleonora Natale
Four decades after the Falklands/Malvinas War and Argentina’s return to democracy, this article explores the ways in which veterans accused of crimes against humanity remember the conflict. Before confronting the British in the South Atlantic in 1982, the Argentine military had been involved in operations of counterinsurgency and illegal repression at home. Since 2005, hundreds of former officers —
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Pilgrimage Respecified: Falklands War Veterans’ Accounts of their Returns to the Falkland Islands Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 K. Neil Jenkings, John Beales
In 2002 the South Atlantic Medal Association organized its first ‘pilgrimage’ to the Falkland Islands. Pilgrimages to the islands have since become a regular occurrence. Battlefield ‘pilgrimages’ are seen not only as a ritual of remembrance of the dead, but as a cathartic act of personal and bonded-group self-affirmation, understood by many as an essential element of the psychological healing process
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Hyper-Realist Mirrors: Exequiel Martinez’s Oil Paintings as Testimonies of the Air Battle Over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Rosana Guber
This paper examines how artists create the past. It analyses the aeronautic works of art by Captain Exequiel Martínez as portrayed and used by the painter, the Argentine Air Force and the Argentine officers who took part of the air battle for the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982. Unlike the dominant views condemning the armed initiative of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976–83), this paper delves into
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Visual Histories of Postwar Reconstruction: Special Issue Introduction Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Tom Allbeson, Claire Gorrara
This special issue interrogates the role photography played in shaping reconstruction projects around the globe from the mid-forties to the early fifties. The collected articles address contexts and topics, such as demobilization in the USSR, home-building in Australia, efforts to reassert imperial rule in Burma (now Myanmar), attempts to rehabilitate child Holocaust survivors in Britain, and understandings
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The Picture of (Mental) Health: Images of Jewish ‘Unaccompanied Children’ in the Aftermath of the Second World War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Rebecca Clifford
This article uses photographs of a group of child Holocaust survivors – the so-called ‘Lingfield children’ from the Weir Courtney care home in Lingfield, Surrey – to explore how images of survivor children were deployed in the early postwar period. It argues that these images responded to broader anxieties about a generation of ‘war-damaged’ European children, and in their self-conscious portrayal
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Visualizing the Red Army’s Demobilization: Photography, Reconstructing Community and Creating Post-War Memory Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Robert Dale
This article explores the photographs taken of the Red Army’s homecoming in the summer 1945. It examines what these reveal about post-war reconstruction and the re-establishment of communities. It argues that official demobilization photography was a carefully constructed and highly politicized attempt to visualize veterans’ reintegration, which subsequently structured war memory. The research is based
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Purposeful Nation-Building: Photography, Modernisation and Post-War Reconstruction in Australia Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Kevin Foster
This article considers how Australian photography from the late 1930s to the early 1950s encouraged public engagement with the aims and policies of post-war reconstruction. It examines how the nation’s first photo-magazine, Pix, covered the build up to and early months of the war and emphasised its reach into the domestic sphere. It examines photography’s role in making housing a core social and political
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Picturing Displaced Persons (DPs), Exhibiting French Prestige? Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Laure Humbert
This article explores how photography documenting humanitarian aid in French-occupied Germany was mobilized to enhance France’s image, against the backdrop of increasing anxieties about its international standing. It draws on images found in the archives of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the French occupation zone , which sat between the ‘official’ and the ‘private’
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Domestic Archives of Empire: Photographing Burma and Reconstructing British Imperialism for the Postwar Moment Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Tom Allbeson, Claire Gorrara
This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were
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Un-doing the Vietnam War Legacy: Monumentalizing Second World War Veterans to Legitimize Contemporary US Military Interventions Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Arthur C. Danto’s distinction between monuments and memorials proposes a differentiation between two ideologically-determined modes of commemoration, encompassing not just architectural symbols of the past but also all other forms of cultural ‘remembering’, including documentary, literary, and cinematic forms of representation. My discussion will focus on a photographic album significantly entitled
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Empathy for the ‘Other’: Neglected Finnish Ethnographic War Photography from Occupied Soviet Territory Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Tuuli Matila, Paul R. Mullins, Timo Ylimaunu
This article examines a series of unsettling images from the Finnish Continuation War (1941–1944) and the memories of the war that these photographs construct for contemporary Finns. We argue that these images can be viewed through Alison Landsberg's (2004) notion of ‘prosthetic memory’, which underlines how visual media enable the acquisition of vivid memories of past events. The paper outlines how
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Kurdish Narratives of Conflict: the Politics of the Kurdish Question in Turkish Cinema Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Laura S.T. Rehbein, Daniel Beck, Morgane Desoutter, Tina Rosner-Merker, Alexander Spencer
Although there has been a considerable amount of research on the Kurdish Question in general, so far, little attention has been given to the relationship between the Kurdish Question and its depiction and constitution in film. The study of films offers insights into how aesthetics inform, determine, enable, and naturalize specific interpretations and actions. This article sees films as narratives and
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‘Not suitable for exhibition’: Cinema Censorship and International Intervention in Argentina, 1939–1945 Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Camila Gatica Mizala
During the Second World War, Buenos Aires’s Government censored a number of films that they viewed as potentially having a detrimental effect on the political outlooks of its people of Buenos Aires. These bans, which were later extended to the whole nation, were due to the intervention of international and local politicians and diplomats in an attempt to influence the citizens' opinion of the Axis
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The Spanish War as Dress Rehearsal for Paul Robeson’s Political Song Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Grant Olwage
During the time Paul Robeson lived in Britain he became a global star: a singer, film and stage actor, and in due course a political activist. It is to this time that scholars attribute his political awakening, which entailed, a broadening of his outlook to encompass an internationalist perspective. The Spanish Civil War galvanized the singer to action. His involvement in the war, which included regular
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‘Ol’ Man River’ at the Front: Paul Robeson, Music, and Blackness in Republican Spain Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Carol A. Hess
Several scholars have discussed the impact of the Spanish Civil War on the Black singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson, including his brief 1938 tour of Republican Spain. Yet none has considered the tour in musical terms, nor taken into account Spanish reaction. Drawing on coverage in the Republican press, along with recent work on vocality and identity, I argue that the tour challenged prior notions
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Some British Musical Responses to the Spanish Civil War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Kate Bowan
When writing on the Spanish Civil War for the Guardian in 2007, Eric Hobsbawm remembered it was the artists, writers and poets who documented it by means of ‘the pen, the brush and the camera’. Absent in Hobsbawm’s recollections is any mention of music or musical performance. Taking Alan Bush’s 1939 Popular Front spectacle, Festival of Music for the People as a point of departure, this article explores
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Victoire de la vie and L’Espagne vivra by Henri Cartier-Bresson: Two Different Musical Strategies at the Service of Republican Propaganda Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Jérôme Rossi
From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish Civil War gave several film directors the opportunity to stand side by side with Republican soldiers by filming them in combat. Henri Cartier-Bresson first movie Victoire de la vie (Victory of Life, 1937), then, one year later, as the nationalist side was gaining ground, L’Espagne vivra (Spain shall live, 1938). The music for Cartier Bressons’s two films follows two contrasting
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Shostakovich's Music for Salute, Spain! Discoveries and Perspectives Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Galina Kopytova
In this article I examine the theatre production of Salute, Spain! by A. Afinogenov, in Leningrad, 1936, with music by Shostakovich. Afinogenov's heroic and romantic piece was a response to the struggle of the Spanish people against fascism, and was perceived by the ideologues of Soviet culture as a gift to the Extraordinary VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets of the USSR, which approved the new (‘Stalin’)
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Memorializing RAF Bomber Command in the United Kingdom Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Heather Hughes
This article traces the ways in which RAF Bomber Command has been memorialized in the UK since the 1940s, focusing on those who have organized memorials and associated commemorations. Distinct phases can be identified. Until the 1970s, the Command was accorded a prominent role in official memorial and ceremonial activities. Veterans’ activities reflected this acknowledgement. From the 1980s, in the
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‘Football Remembers’ — the Collective Memory of Football in the Spectacle of British Military Commemoration Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Daniel Fitzpatrick
This article examines two major rituals of contemporary national life in the UK: association football and military commemoration. It explores the ways in which remembering is enacted and performed within UK football and how these processes are related to issues of power, agency and identity in Britain today. Employing the concepts of collective memory and spectacle, this article argues that ‘memory
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Before Babylift: Female Photojournalists and Vietnamese-American ‘Orphans’ in American Print-media, 1971–1973 Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Georgia Vesma
President Ford’s announcement of ‘Operation Babylift’, a plan to airlift over 2,000 Vietnamese ‘orphans’ from South Vietnam to the United States in March 1975, prompted a wave of interest in adoption of Vietnamese children by American families. This was the culmination of years of growing interest in adopting Vietnamese ‘orphans’. Contemporary newspaper reports credited television and photographs with
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Theatrical Encounters During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Annelies Andries, Clare Siviter
(2021). Theatrical Encounters During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 14, Themed issue: Theatrical encounters during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, pp. 127-139.
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The Berlin Premiere of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide in 1809: An Opera to Restore the Monarchy and the Nation Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Eric Schneeman
After devastatingly defeating Prussian forces in 1806, Emperor Napoleon’s forces occupied Berlin, reduced Prussia’s territories, and forced King Friedrich Wilhelm III into exile. When the king returned to Berlin in 1809, the Nationaltheater staged Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) in German translation as part of a larger dynastic celebration. On the one hand, these festivities
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Staging Imperial Identity: Music Theatre, the Holy Roman Empire, and the French Revolutionary Wars Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Austin Glatthorn
The Holy Roman Empire’s final decades were plagued with conflict. While the war of the Bavarian Succession (1778–79) destabilized from within, the Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) posed a threat from abroad. Scholars have long considered the Empire’s kaleidoscopic constitution among its greatest weaknesses, for it could not possess the perceived power of a centralized nation-state and thus (allegedly)
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‘D’un bel canto patrioto francese’: On the Penetration of French Revolutionary Elements in the Spectacles of Republican Milan (1796–1802) Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Alessandra Palidda
Following the arrival of the French army in April 1796, Milan became the capital of the Cisalpine Republic (1797–1802), a ‘sister republic’ of France— a stark transformation after decades of Austrian control. While disastrous in terms of economic exploitation, the French republican governments identified spectacle as an essential tool for propaganda, control, and education. Milan was a major centre
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‘Whole Shew and Spectacle’: French Prisoner-of-War Theatre in England During the Napoleonic Era Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Katherine Astbury
During the Napoleonic wars there were tens of thousands of French prisoners of war (POWs) in Britain. Whether out on parole or held in prisons or on prison hulks, theatre was a common feature of their experiences. This article compares and contrasts the on-board theatricals that POWs performed on the hulks, in the purpose-built theatre at Portchester Castle and those put on by officers held on parole
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Operatic Encounters in a Time of War Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Benjamin Walton
Absolute war, total war, world revolution: the nature and scale of the global conflicts that took place around 1800 have been explored (and contested) both at the time and ever since, and recent scholarship has begun to resituate the literary, visual, and theatrical art of the period within this landscape of perpetual conflict. Opera historians, though, have until recently largely steered clear of
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Gendered Frames of Violence in Military Heritagization: The Case of Swedish Cold War History Journal of War & Culture Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Maria Wendt
How are opportunities to critically reflect upon military violence and militarization shaped by museal representations of a country's military history? Inspired by a critical heritage perspective and feminist international relations research, this article contributes to the scholarly discussion of the political implications of military memory making. The aim is to analyse how military violence is framed