Not the Manhattan Project
I’ve only just caught up with this…. Joshua Oppenheimer‘s surreal-documentary film The act of killing (2012). It’s so surreal I need to let the synopsis speak for itself: ‘The unrepentant former...
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I commented on Joshua Oppenheimer‘s film about the Indonesian genocide in 1965, The Act of Killing, here and here. There his focus was, unwaveringly, upon the killers. But his new film, The Look of...
View ArticleIntelligence and War
A new edition of the ever-interesting Mediatropes is now online (it’s open access), this time on Intelligence and War: you can access the individual essays (or download the whole issue) here....
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