SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Terrence Malick, Gulf War Syndrome, Errol Morris
1 Dec 2018
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Veterans breakdowns: desertion, court-martial and execution in ww1. British veterans reactions to the visit of emperor hirohito to uk, to the rejection of compensation claims in a japanese court chronic illness: syndromes from nuclear testing (australia), agent orange (us, Aust), gulf war syndrome state reluctance to admit liability and compensation for veterans. Mias as a political issue - recent re-burial of anzacs in france production of postwar collective memories revelations about the actual conduct of war: war crimes; genocides; massacres; torture; abuse; rape victims/survivors testimonies: biographies; truth commissions; trials; reparations Consent to kill/be killed discourse concealed aims of war dead bodies - signification mass opening of bodies logic of war victory/defeat. Legacy individual/collective memory; ongoing harm - injuries; trauma; weapons that go on injuring. The fog of war - director errol morris. Thin red line - director terrence malick 7, 15 apocalypse now - director.
