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VIETNAM WAR FILMS IN THE LIGHT OF SECURITY SCIENCE – ANALYSIS ON THE EXAMPLE OF SELECTED MOTION PICTURES
Eugeniusz MOCZUK1, Arkadiusz LEŚNIAK-MOCZUK2
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Keywords: film genre, war film, Vietnam War, security science
Abstract American films on the Vietnam War films are not simply war movies, but they can also be equated to thrillers, or adventure, battlefield, historical, and anti-war films. The definition of a war film indicates the its characteristics, namely: (a) its defining basis entails war, military conflict, warfare, and other circumstances identifiable as war, (b) it falls within the scope of a historical film, (c) it shows a specific slice of historical reality, referring to the time and space in question, presenting weapons, uniforms, or war-related situations of the period in question, (d) its objectives are political, sociotechnical, informational, impressionistic, persuasive-ideological in nature. The study entails a film-studies interpretation, from the perspective of security science, on the example of five American motion pictures: "We Were Soldiers", "Apocalypse Now", "Full Metal Jacket", "Hair", "Rambo - First Blood".
Rzeszow University of Technology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0002-5447-6966
E-mail: e.moczuk@prz.edu.pl
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-7758-5519
E-mail: ad.lesniak@gmail.com