Studying The Hurt Locker

Download or read book Studying The Hurt Locker written by Terence McSweeney and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (2009), its stylistic and narrative devices, its cultural impact, its reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film. McSweeney places the film in a richly textured historical, political, and industrial context, arguing that The Hurt Locker is part of a long tradition of films about American wars that play a considerable role in how audiences come to understand the conflicts that they depict. Thus, films about a nation’s wars are never “only a movie” but rather should be considered a cultural battleground themselves on which a war of representation is waged.