Dominant Theme Of US Militarism In Modern American Cinema

A Film Analysis of the Dominant Theme of U.S. Militarism in Modern American Cinema

This film study will define the dominant theme of militarism that is found the propagandistic filmmaking methods in the modern American cinema. The films Argos (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) present a new form of militarism in the War o Terror that glorifies an supports the American government’s war against Islam. Argos defines the actual cooperation between Hollywood, the CIA, and the U.S. government in perpetuating heroic films about American military prowess throughout the world. This form of wartime propagandistic model is historical based on the postwar era in which war was propagandized as glorified use of American military force. In the 2000s and

The films Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Argo (2012) are films that promote an American justification for torture and militarism to attacks Muslims and other people deemed to be “terrorist” in this type of propaganda war. In Argo (2012) been Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA infiltration specialist designated to free the hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. In the film, Hollywood make up artists and producers are seen making a propaganda film to deceive the hostage takers. This type militarism is based on the more abstract methods of warfare, which have been defined in the current War on Terror. This aspect of filmmaking is an important clue in revealing the theme of militarism, which has taken on a more terrorist method of wartime propaganda. After this performance, Affleck won an Oscar for best movie by the First

These aspects of the modern film industry define ht theme of American militarism as the most dominant aspect of filmmaking through the use of violence, weaponry, uniforms, and other aspects of institutional warfare promoted in these types of propaganda films. Argo is one example of the popularity of films that replicate American heroism and military might in the post-WWII era through this type of covert combat against terrorism in the 2010s. The War on terror is a popular means of cinematic replication of American militarism and the justification for war that arises in these modern