Eastwood's Iwo Jima

Eastwood's Iwo Jima

Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

Edited by: Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart

Columbia University Press | 2013

https://doi.org/10.7312/gjel16564

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With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations' perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes. Together these works tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." In this volume, international scholars in political science and film, literary, and cultural studies undertake multifaceted investigations into how Eastwood's diptych reflects war today. Fifteen essays explore the intersection among war films, American history, and Japanese patriotism. They present global attitudes toward war memories, icons, and heroism while offering new perspectives on cinema, photography, journalism, ethics, propaganda, war strategy, leadership, and the war on terror.

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Anne Gjelsvik is professor of film studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has written about popular cinema, film violence and ethics, and the representation of gender in the media. She is currently working on representations of fatherhood in contemporary American cinema.

Rikke Schubart is an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research concerns gender and genre in horror, war films, and action cinema. She is currently writing on women, horror, and emotions. Among her publications is Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970–2006.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Acknowledgements Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Introduction: Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part One. History
The Making and Remakings of an American Icon: ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’ from Photojournalism to Global, Digital Media Mette Mortensen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust’s Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile Bjørn Sørenssen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	36
Flags of Their Stepfathers? Race and Culture in the Context of Military Service and the Fight for Citizenship Martin Edwin Andersen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
Part Two. Flags of Our Fathers
Following the Flag in American Film Robert Eberwein Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	81
Care or Glory? Picturing a New War Hero Anne Gjelsvik Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	100
Beyond Mimesis: War, History, and Memory in Flags of Our Fathers Holger Pötzsch Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	119
Clint Eastwood’s Postclassical Multiple Narratives of Iwo Jima Glenn Man Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	139
Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers Robert Burgoyne Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
Part Three. Letters From Iwo Jima
Eastwood and the Enemy Rikke Schubart Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	173
East of Eastwood: Iwo Jima and the Japanese Context Lars-Martin Sørensen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	194
Humanism versus Patriotism: Eastwood Trapped in the Bi-polar Logic of Warfare Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	218
Suicide in Letters from Iwo Jima Robert Burgoyne Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	231
Part Four. War Today
To Sell A War: Flags, Lies, And Tragedy Vibeke Schou Tjalve Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	247
Banzai! Letters from Iwo Jima and Choosing the Enemy in Risk Society Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
Filmography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	276
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	279

Eastwood's Iwo Jima

Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

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