The ideologies of the Iraq war as depicted within a body of films

The ideologies of the Iraq war as depicted within a body of film

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

my question

I am slightly changing my question so that it is not about the affganistan war where as the films i have are about the iraq conflict it is also easier to get up information about it and more books have been made around it.

Waltz of Bashir




The film i chose waltz of Bashir as one of my secondary films which i was told to use is in the wrong conflict so i decided to chose the film, Thhe kingdom as i feel it has a lot of values and ideologies around the Iraq war.

Sunday, 21 November 2010

My classmate presentations of their small scale reasearch question's

Stacey Craigs question
How is Jonny Depp presented as an anti hero.
The films she will be basing her study around are:
Sweeney Todd (focus film)
Alice in wonderland
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Her presentation was good but i did not understand what she was going to study as there was not a lot of research but it was a good presentation.

Alex Flyn
How has pixar changed over the years
The films he will be basing his study around are:
Finding nemo (focus film)
Toy story
Shrek rival of pixar
He is arguing that pixar has replaced 2d and changed the animation industry.
His presentation was also good but i again did not understand what he was base his study and research around.

Hayley Morris
How 1070's musicals rebels against stereotypes of sexuality and gender
The rocky horror picture show is her focus film
Greece
caburai
Key scenes: Sweet transvestite
Key characters: Dr Frank N Furter- transexual-contrasts of the movie-he is sexually premiscuous.
Reflects her focus area in that it shows different sexuality which was uncommon in the 1970's in new portrayals-against stereotypes first of its kind in film.
Narrative structure-told as a story, retelling from "police reports" by mysterious man.
Micro features- culture sound perform satting.
Messages+values acceptance-tolerance.
Her presentation was quite lenthy and i understood her question fully

Oliver rothwell
Social ideologies represented within the zombie horror genre
Zombie land
Dawn of the dead(focus film)
28 weeks later
Micro features: cinematography sound and performance.
A good presentation i did understand his question however i would have picked 28 days later instead of weeks as it is better and has more ideologies and underlying messages.

Caroline Gittins
The films she will be using are:
Alice in wonderlan (focus film)
Edward scissor hand
Edwood
sleepy hollow
Micro-features: make up, costumes

New small scale reasearch question

The idealogies of Iraq/Afghanistan war as depicted within a body of films. The films i will be using are Hurtlocker, Greenzone, Waltz with Bashir and maybe Jarhead.

Original question

The ideologies of war as depicted within a body of films however i decided it was to broad and i would not ne able to do a small scale reasearch on something so broad as loads of wars over the last 50 to 60 years.