On crime against humanity – concurrence, among the victims, (Nanking's bloodbath – Don't Cry Nanking,, Wu Ziniou and City of Life and Death, Lu Chuan)
| Week | Course Content | Course Video |
|---|---|---|
| Week 01 | War movie(s) and total mobilization. Propaganda and democracy. John Ford ans Akira Kurosawa « do the job » (The Most Beautiful, December 7th) | Watch Online |
| Week 02 | The body of the ennemy : war of races, animalization, extermination (Objective Burma, Raoul Walsh) | Watch Online |
| Week 03 | On crime against humanity – concurrence among the victims (Nanking's bloodbath – Don't Cry Nanking, Wu Ziniou and City of Life and Death, Lu Chuan) | Watch Online |
| Week 04 | On crime against humanity – denial of the crime (Hollywood, the air war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Above and Beyond, Melvyn Frank and Norman Panama) | Watch Online |
| Week 05 | On crime against humanity – esthetics and politics of the catastrophe (Black Rain, Shohei Imamura, Rhapsody in August, Akira Kurosawa, Children of Nagasaki Keisuke Kinoshita) | Watch Online |
| Week 06 | Transfiguring defeats in the field into moral victories (Back to Bataan, Edward Dmytryck, Victory, Liu Jia Chang, Kamikaze, Shinjo Taku) | Watch Online |
| Week 07 | Colonization as an insult, Chinese boxing as reparation (Yip Man, Wilson Yip, Born to Defense, Jet Li, Fist of Fury, Lo Wei) | Watch Online |
| Week 10 | Talking with the enemy – war and idioms – at the end, everybody speaks English (None but the Braves, Frank Sinatra, Hell in the Pacific, John Boorman, Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood) | Watch Online |
| Week 11 | Apocalypse Now – The big show of total war (Midway, Jack Smight, Tora, Tora, Tora, Richard Fleisher, Far Away, Kang Je-Ku, 1941, Steven Spielberg) | Watch Online |
| Week 12 | The elements of total war – sea, sky, jungle, desert, mountains... (Windtalkers, John Woo, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Mervyn Le Roy, Lorelei, Shinji Higushi, Gobi, Robert Wise) | Watch Online |
| Week 14 | Warriors and soldiers. Obedience, fanatism, discipline, sacrifice. What is a good leader ? (Objective Burma, Raoul Walsh, Hall of Montezuma, Lewis Milestone, Merril's Marauders, Samuel Fuller, The Burmese Harp, Kon Ichigawa) | Watch Online |
| Week 15 | As a conclusion : Truth and politics – the facts yield to the constraints of the narrative(s) (Destination Tokyo, Delmer Daves, Oba the Last Samurai, Hideyuki Hirayama) | Watch Online |
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