Movie Critic Article: The Genre and the Crisis
Reflections On Iraqi War Movies How many wars has the US been in so far? Seventeen? More? Check them out! How many movies were inspired by these wars or by the preparations for some more? Apart from internal, regional and world wars, there was Korea, then Vietnam. Then the fiasco of the invasion of the Bay of Pigs (Cuba), Lebanon 1982, the escape from Somalia, the first Gulf war and the second Gulf war. Actually this last one along with the current war in Afghanistan are not yet history. They are part of a surreal universal combat named the War on Terrorism which is as broad and long-drawn as the Cold War (which was certainly a war, by the way). This combative history created its parallel in cinematic expression known as the 'war genre' of movies, a category of movies which has known stability of concept only through the fourties and fifies when it was largely understood as a message to the world declaring the emergence of the greatest world power on the lan...