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IF 0.9 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Paul B. Rich
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电影与小说和短篇小说一起可以为战争和军事冲突提供宝贵的见解。其中包括叛乱运动的冲突,以及各国为抵抗、遏制并有时击败他们而发动的各种反叛乱。电影和文学可以对非常规或非常规战争的教学以及对其更广泛的公共神话的研究提供宝贵的帮助。电影必然是一个伟大的简化者,经常从故事、传说和戏剧中提取神话,并将其转化为受欢迎观众的奇观。这部战争电影处理的一些主要主题源于古代和现代的各种军事冲突:勇气、英雄主义、荣誉以及懦弱和无能;一些卷入军事冲突的人的浪漫和家庭关系频繁破裂;高级指挥官和政治领导人的战略理由和能力;战争对参战人员的创伤影响,以及退伍军人回国后经常受到的恶劣待遇。这期短篇特刊探讨的主题是战士和战士英雄的神话,以及自20世纪60年代以来几部电影中战士作为受害者和侵略者的反战形象的替代。这种转变很有趣,因为它经常发生在电影中,这些电影不是发生在州际战争和宏大的场景战中,比如第一次和第二次世界大战,而是发生在更混乱和旷日持久的小规模冲突中,比如1899-1902年的英波战争、战后英国殖民地的“紧急情况”、越南战争和北爱尔兰的“麻烦”。因此,在这里发表的四篇论文标志着对电影和非常规或非常规战争的学术研究的有益补充,而不是更广泛、更知名的常规战争研究。《游击战》在很大程度上被纳入战争电影的更广泛范畴后,直到最近才开始受到电影研究分析师和影评人的审查。虽然从主题的整洁性来看,这种方法可能有一些道理,但那些研究游击队的人
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Introduction
Cinema together with novels and short stories can provide valuable insights into war and military conflict. These include conflicts fought by insurgent movements and the various counter-insurgencies waged by states to resist, contain, and, on occasions, defeat them. Film and literature can be valuable aids in the teaching of unconventional or irregular wars and the examination of their wider public mythologies. Cinema is necessarily a great simplifier, often taking myths from stories, legends, and plays and transforming them into spectacles for popular audiences. Some of the major themes tackled by this war cinema derive from various military conflicts both ancient and modern: courage, heroism, and honour along with cowardice and incompetence; romance and the frequent breakdown of domestic relationships of some of those involved in military conflicts; the strategic rationale and competence of senior commanders and political leaders; the traumatic impact of warfare on those fighting in it and the frequently shabby treatment of veterans returning home. The theme explored in this short special issue is the myth of the warrior and soldier hero and its replacement in several films since the 1960s of antiwar images of the soldier as victim and aggressor. The shift is interesting for the way it has often occurred in films that are not situated in interstate wars and grand set piece battles, such as those of World Wars One and Two, but in messier and protracted smaller-scale conflicts such as the Anglo Boer War of 1899–1902, post-war British colonial ‘emergencies’, the Vietnam War and ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland. The four papers published here thus mark a useful addition to the scholarly study of cinema and irregular or unconventional war in contrast to the wider and better-known work on conventional war. Guerrilla Warfare has only recently begun to be examined by film studies analysts and cinema critics after a long period when it was largely subsumed within the wider rubric of war cinema. While there may be some rationale for this approach in terms of a tidiness of subject matter, those studying guerrilla
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