War movie(s) and total mobilization., Propaganda and democracy. John Ford ans Akira Kurosawa « do the job », (The Most Beautiful, December 7th)

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Week 01War movie(s) and total mobilization.
Propaganda and democracy. John Ford ans Akira Kurosawa « do the job »
(The Most Beautiful, December 7th)
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Week 02The body of the ennemy : war of races, animalization, extermination
(Objective Burma, Raoul Walsh)
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Week 03On crime against humanity – concurrence
among the victims
(Nanking's bloodbath – Don't Cry Nanking,
Wu Ziniou and City of Life and Death, Lu Chuan)
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Week 04On crime against humanity – denial of the crime
(Hollywood, the air war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Above and Beyond, Melvyn Frank and Norman Panama)
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Week 05On crime against humanity – esthetics and politics of the catastrophe
(Black Rain, Shohei Imamura, Rhapsody in August, Akira Kurosawa, Children of Nagasaki Keisuke Kinoshita)
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Week 06Transfiguring defeats in the field into moral victories
(Back to Bataan, Edward Dmytryck, Victory, Liu Jia Chang, Kamikaze, Shinjo Taku)
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Week 07Colonization as an insult, Chinese boxing as reparation
(Yip Man, Wilson Yip, Born to Defense, Jet Li, Fist of Fury, Lo Wei)
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Week 10Talking 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)
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Week 11Apocalypse Now – The big show of total war
(Midway, Jack Smight, Tora, Tora, Tora, Richard Fleisher, Far Away, Kang Je-Ku, 1941, Steven Spielberg)
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Week 12The 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)
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Week 14Warriors 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)
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Week 15As 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)
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