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Blowback: The 9/11 Wars in Global Film

In the News • 29m

Directed by Terence McSweeney, George Lee • Documentary • 2019 • 30 minutes

For a huge number of people around the globe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become "America's story". Films like the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker (2009) and the commercially successful and culturally impactful American Sniper (2014) have made a substantial impact on how these wars have been shaped in the global cultural imaginary. But what of films about these modern wars made outside of the United States? What of those narratives told by the Iraqis and Afghans themselves? Or of French, Turkish, German, Chinese, or Danish film-makers? How might these films contribute to a greater understanding of how the conflicts came to be viewed and remembered by cultures outside of "our own"?

Adopting a richly textured and dynamic approach, BLOWBACK: The 9/11 Wars in Global Film is an entertaining, educational and informative documentary that seeks to illuminate the potentialities and limits of national cinemas in the global age.

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21st century, 9/11, action films, afghanistan, anthropology and archaeology, area studies, art, art and architecture, blowback, bullfrog films, cinema, communication, communication and media studies, critical thinking, cultural anthropology, culture, doc, documentary, dramatic films, expository, film, film and video studies, film criticism, film history, film studies, film theory, global / international studies, his, history, hollywood, international cinema, international relations and geopolitics, iraq, iraq-afghan war, mass media, media, media literacy, media studies, ovid, politics, politics and political science, psychology and mental health, september 11, social issues, social psychology, sociology, sociology of art, terrorism, the politics of art, u.s. foreign policy, visual anthropology, war and peace, war films, war movies, war on terror

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