Essays about: "American Sniper"

Found 1 essay containing the words American Sniper.

  1. 1. America in the scope : A post-colonial study of American Sniper, mourning and nationalism

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Mikael Halén Román; [2015]
    Keywords : American Sniper; post-colonial; Orientalism; patriotism; Other; Othering; West; East; Occident; flagging; nationalism; mourning; death; violence; war; heroism; dehumanization; Islam; Christianity; Michael Billig; Judith Butler; Edward Said; Benedict Anderson; imagined communities.;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to discuss how themes of nationalism, mourning and death can be implemented in a film such as American Sniper to reproduce the idea of nation states as well as enforce nationalism. Through a close analysis of chosen sequences in the film the thesis presents a mode of looking at film, rooted in the given themes, which will help analyzing similar films with these reoccurring themes. READ MORE