‘With One Hand Tied Behind Our Back’: Collective Memory, The Media And US Intervention From The Gulf War To Afghanistan

2003 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
David Ryan
Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Clarembeaux

Film education in the digital age should be based on three closely-related and complementary fundamentals: to see, to analyze and to make films with young people; three basics that must interact and support each other. The concept of creative analysis could be the glue the binds this subject together, making it coherent and efficient for educational purposes. If cinema is an art, it is above all the art of memory, both individual and collective. This article suggests that we can join the pedagogy of film education to the citizen’s desire to perpetuate memory and preserve cultural heritage. The author describes various types of films to prove this hypothesis, and at the same time indicates the economic and cultural dimension of the media. The essay starts with an approach to film education in the digital age. Later, it analyzes certain aspects of films of memory, referring specifically to the typology of standpoints of film-makers and the treatment of their sources. Lastly, there is a reflection on the convergence of the concept of creative analysis, promoted by film education, and the production of videos by young people dedicated to the individual or collective memory. This convergence matches European Union proposals concerning the production and creation of audiovisual media from this viewpoint. La educación para el cine en la era digital debería apoyarse en tres polos complementarios y estrechamente asociados: ver, analizar y hacer películas con jóvenes. Estos tres polos han de potenciarse mutuamente. El concepto de análisis creativo podría ser la argamasa que diera coherencia y eficiencia al dispositivo educativo. Si el cine es un arte, es sobre todo el arte de la memoria, tanto colectiva como individual. Este artículo sugiere que es posible hacer converger la pedagogía de la educación cinematográfica y la voluntad ciudadana de perpetuar la memoria, al tiempo que se protege el patrimonio cultural. El autor propone una serie de películas para ilustrar estos planteamientos, que ponen de relieve la dimensión económica y cultural de los medios de comunicación, respondiendo en esta convergencia a las más recientes directrices de la Unión Europea sobre creación y producción, desde esta perspectiva, de medios audiovisuales. El trabajo se inicia con una aproximación a la educación para el cine en la era digital. Posteriormente se recogen algunas singularidades de las «películas de la memoria», aludiendo concretamente a la tipología de los puntos de vista de los realizadores y al tratamiento de sus fuentes. Por último, se refleja el encuentro entre el concepto de «análisis creativo», fomentado por la educación cinematográfica, y la realización de videogramas hechos por jóvenes y dedicados a la memoria individual o colectiva.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Palazón Meseguer ◽  
Juan Manuel Díaz

Personal and / or collective memory can be materialized from the form of images and sounds. Throughout our history we generate photographs, recordings on cassettes or films of very different types. We want to retain moments and moments to remember them later. The subsequent viewing takes on new meanings and signifiers; and this home material acquires a new dimension. Domestic films achieve a whole series of unexpected resonances with stories that work outside the dominant constructions of the media.


1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Beamish ◽  
Harvey Molotch ◽  
Richard Flacks
Keyword(s):  

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dandeker
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  

1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Beamish ◽  
Harvey Molotch ◽  
Richard Flacks
Keyword(s):  

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Thomas Waldman

This chapter explains the phenomenon as vicarious warfare confronts us today, and studies the multiple factors driving its modern adoption. It argues that vicarious warfare has come to dominate US strategic practice over the last decade, but in its contemporary form, it emerged out of developments apparent since at least the early 1990s, and in certain areas well before that. The chapter begins by considering some of the underlying factors that make proactive, forceful US intervention appear to policymakers as both essential and feasible. These should be understood as necessary but not sufficient factors because they do not necessarily preclude alternative military approaches more in line with the prescriptions of the other traditions of conventional battle or small wars. Why predominantly vicarious methods have come to the fore will become apparent as the chapter progresses to consider more specific and circumstantial factors associated with core sections of US society: namely, the military, the wider public and the media. The chapter concludes by bringing the analysis together to explain how, due to the confluence of developments in these various spheres, vicarious warfare emerges as an especially appealing solution for defence officials and political leaders facing multiple competing pressures and exigencies.


1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Toivonen∗ ◽  
Cedric Cullingford†
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  

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