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EDITED BY

RIKKE SCHUBART & ANNE GJELSVIK

EASTWOODS IWO JIMA

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS AND LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA

WALLFLOWER PRESS

LONDON & NEW YORK

EASTWOODS IWO JIMA

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cover photo: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Warner Bros. and Dreamworks,

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CONTENTS

RIKKE SCHUBART & ANNE GJELSVIK

METTE MORTENSEN

BJRN SRENSSEN

MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN

ROBERT EBERWEIN

ANNE GJELSVIK

HOLGER PTZSCH

GLENN MAN

ROBERT BURGOYNE

RIKKE SCHUBART

LARS-MARTIN SRENSEN

MIKKEL BRUUN ZANGENBERG

ROBERT BURGOYNE

VIBEKE SCHOU TJALVE

MIKKEL VEDBY RASMUSSEN

We want to thank the University of Southern Denmark for hosting the international one-day seminar Visions of War in a New World Order & Clint Eastwoods Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) on 5 May 2008, organised by Rikke Schubart. The conference was opened by the Danish Minister of Defence, Sren Gade, who was also first speaker. Also, Rikke Schubart thanks the Danish Humanistic Research Council, who funded her research project Hollywoods Combat Zone: The American War Film in the New World Order, 19912009.

We are grateful for financial support for this publication from the Department for Art and Media Studies, NTNU, and from the Humanistic Faculty, University of Southern Denmark.

We thank our editor, Yoram Allon at Wallflower Press, for his patience and faith in our anthology. And, finally, we thank all the contributors for their patience.

A somewhat different version of Robert Burgoynes two chapters appeared in Robert Burgoyne (2010) Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (revised edition; University of Minnesota Press).

MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN was Assistant Professor and Chief of Strategic Communications at the National Defense University, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the US Department of Defense. He is the author of Dossier Secreto: Argentinas Desaparecidos and the Myth of the Dirty War (Westview Press, 1993), La Policia: Pasado, Presente y Propuestas para El Futuro (Sudamericana, 2002), and Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America (Lexington Books, 2010).

ROBERT BURGOYNE, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His publications include Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (revised edition, University of Minnesota Press, 2010); The Epic Film in World Culture (Routledge, 2010); The Hollywood Historical Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008); New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics (co-authored with Robert Stam and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Routledge, 1993); and Bertoluccis 1900: A Narrative and Historical Analysis (Wayne State University Press, 1992). He is working on a new project involving the body and affect in the war film.

ROBERT EBERWEIN, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the Department of English, Oakland University, Michigan. He is the author of The Hollywood War Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Armed Forces (Rutgers University Press, 2007) and the editor of Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s (Rutgers University Press, 2010) and The War Film (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

ANNE GJELSVIK, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her latest book Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions (co-edited with Jrgen Bruhn and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen; Continuum, 2013). She has also written is Vondt og vakkert. Vold i audiovisuelle medier (Bad and Beautiful: Violence in Audio Visual Media; Hyskoleforlaget, 2007). Among her publications are Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media (Nordicom, 2004), co-edited with Rikke Schubart. She was chief editor of the Norwegian media studies journal Norsk Medietidsskrift from 2002 until 2006. She is currently working on a book about fatherhood in contemporary American cinema.

GLENN MAN is Professor at the English Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His book Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 19671976 was published in 1994 (Greenwood). His most recent articles have appeared in Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather Trilogy (Cambridge University Press, 2000), American Cinema of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home (Wallflower Press, 2008). He is currently working on the multiple narrative film.

METTE MORTENSEN, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her book Facial Politics: Photography and Identification is forthcoming (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010) and she is Danish contributor to the three-volume History of European Photography in the 20th Century (Fotofo, 2010, 2011). She is co-editor of Passports: Identity, Culture, and Borders (Informations Forlag, 2004) and Geometry of the Face (The Royal Danish Library, 2003), and has written numerous articles on representations of war, the history of photography, and contemporary art.

HOLGER PTZSCH, PhD, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Culture and Literature at Troms University (UiT) where he is associated with the Border Culture research group. His field of research includes the war film, the relation between film and cultural memory, computer war games, and forms of enemy framing in audio-visual media. Ptzsch has published in academic journals such as Media, War & Conflict, Memory Studies, Nordicom Review, and Norsk Medietidsskrift, and has contributed essays to many edited anthologies.

RIKKE SCHUBART, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. She currently works with emotions, gender, and film. She is the author of

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