CMN 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Judith Butler, Gulf War, Iraq War

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3104
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Not without my daughter (1991 persian gulf war) All these women are linked with position in society. Gender is a part of the orientalist discourse, especially in movies that emerge in the west in times of war and crisis (gulf war, Movies become part of a series of mediated messages that justify national and governmental actions. o! By identifying the dominant group, you can justify a mentality o! You justify the dominant group by crediting them for being which becomes such a close mentality. dominant. The stereotypical image of the other (orient) is of oppressed and submissive females and of a violent, manipulating and yet succumbing male. o! Women can sacrifice their life for the nation, loved one o! These images are used in films in both contexts (eastern and. Women are used in the cultural construction of nations. Women as biological reproducers within a specific ethnic group. Reproducers of boundaries of an ethnic or national group.