Miller, J. E. (2013). Revisiting and re-visioning war genre conventions on film: The hurt locker. (Order No. 1539365, University of Colorado at Boulder). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, , 97. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1411915798?accountid=12434. (1411915798).
This thesis discusses the idea that The Hurt Locker is not a war movie but more of a movie about character. Miller discusses the possibilities that The Hurt Locker is breaking the war genre norm and changing the game with how the movie is more focused on character development rather than American heroics and camaraderie. I will be able to use this source as a reference for my idea that The Hurt Locker was made to highlight how destructive war is both physically and emotionally with a further spotlight on how important vices are to defusing the wrong emotions that ensue from the mental torture of war. After finding this source I really found my purpose of this assignment and I know what I want to write about. I will discuss that idea above but also take note on how the genre of war changes with respect to time period.
Clover, J. (2014). Allegory Bomb. (Film Quarterly) Vol. 63, No. 2 (Winter 2009) (pp. 8-9) Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/FQ.2009.63.2.8 .
This article from Film Quarterly is just a review of the film. It says that The Hurt Locker is a war film, but it discusses in depth the psychology of the main character and analyzes the film as a character changing war movie and not just a straight action heroic movie. It also makes the claim that this movie is about a larger story of the war. I could use this article to discuss a more different, but more radical theory that The Hurt Locker was received so well by audiences because it was an advanced form of political propaganda. I could discuss how I think that early war movies used American heroes and camaraderie to portray soldiers and wars as heroic American activities. After discussing that I would bring up the idea that over time war movies become more subtle forms of American pride propaganda. This would be difficult to discuss but definitely implements the historical background more than my other thesis idea.
This thesis discusses the idea that The Hurt Locker is not a war movie but more of a movie about character. Miller discusses the possibilities that The Hurt Locker is breaking the war genre norm and changing the game with how the movie is more focused on character development rather than American heroics and camaraderie. I will be able to use this source as a reference for my idea that The Hurt Locker was made to highlight how destructive war is both physically and emotionally with a further spotlight on how important vices are to defusing the wrong emotions that ensue from the mental torture of war. After finding this source I really found my purpose of this assignment and I know what I want to write about. I will discuss that idea above but also take note on how the genre of war changes with respect to time period.
Clover, J. (2014). Allegory Bomb. (Film Quarterly) Vol. 63, No. 2 (Winter 2009) (pp. 8-9) Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/FQ.2009.63.2.8 .
This article from Film Quarterly is just a review of the film. It says that The Hurt Locker is a war film, but it discusses in depth the psychology of the main character and analyzes the film as a character changing war movie and not just a straight action heroic movie. It also makes the claim that this movie is about a larger story of the war. I could use this article to discuss a more different, but more radical theory that The Hurt Locker was received so well by audiences because it was an advanced form of political propaganda. I could discuss how I think that early war movies used American heroes and camaraderie to portray soldiers and wars as heroic American activities. After discussing that I would bring up the idea that over time war movies become more subtle forms of American pride propaganda. This would be difficult to discuss but definitely implements the historical background more than my other thesis idea.