A guerra global no cinema

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Laura Pimentel [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cinema; Guerra; Terrorismo; Hollywood; Indústria cultural
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151007

With the end of the Cold War there war many affirmations that peace would be the main characteristic of the new world order. Unfortunately, this was not what happened. Conflicts that were believed to be surpassed came back, like those of ethnic and religious motivation, besides that, new international actors became threats to international security – like those of international organized crime, international drug traffick and weapons and international terrorism. But it was with the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that the Western war effort and militarism became stronger to fight those threats. However, those efforts were performed based on the unilateral and unclear strategy named “War on Terror”. This kind of strategy, for it’s on motivation has not limits, neither in terms of space nor time. Among the weapons used in this war, besides the drones and tanks of war, we can include the products of the cultural industry. The 20th century is full of examples of the political uses of the cultural industry to promote the incentives of the masses in favor of war. The Second World War, for example, had the cultural industry and Propaganda as important means to manipulate the individual’s inner drives to promote the total war. In the 21st century, the war strategies have altered significantly, however, something remains: the relationship between war and cultural industry. Being cinema historically the flagship of this industry, one of the most profitable products of the entertainment sector and, specially in the case of the Hollywoodian cinema, who is intimately related with the American military and political sectors, it is reasonable to assume that movies are still important means of values and ideologies propagation, therefore useful to stimulate the war effort. In this dissertation, we have analyzed four movies that depicts different phases of the global war that has begun with the Gulf War and is now the “War on Terror”, the movies are: The Siege (1998), Black Hawk Down (2001), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and American Sniper (2014). We have tried to understand how these movies depicts the enemies, what are their motivations and means of action, the western speeches that justifies the tactics used against these enemies and how these movies depicts the American military.