Specifi Sensibilities

) The concept of a nation has been infamously challenging to define throughout history. Many have attempted to interpret the idea, but few have been able to come up with credible scholarly analysis yet it still remains phenomenon. However, political scientist, Benedict Anderson, claims a nation is a limited and sovereign imagined political community. Despite the egalitarian nationalistic views in some nations, a sense of privilege still arises regarding race, class, gender, sexuality. This appears in film as communities and nations are represented through the coalition of peoples despite numerable differences and inequalities to form a camaraderie. As these nations develop, they begin to be marked by these privileges and defined by these ideological forces regarding exclusion and inclusion. Anderson illustrates a nation “is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship (Anderson). This is accurate in the film Fury as a community between five soldiers is created in the confines of a tank. Wardaddy, Norman, Bible, Gordo, and Coon-ass band together despite their differences concerning religious beliefs, language, culture, and war experience to form a fraternity.

Hollywood has done quite the job regarding white sensibilities. They cater to white sensibilities where often times they don’t offend white people, instead offending or shocking another race. This occurs in Selma during the initial Selma to Montgomery march when they cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they are confronted by state troopers on the other side. When the marchers don’t turn back the troopers assault the marchers with horses, tear gas, clubs, and batons. It’s a very brutal scene to watch, where black marchers are crushed by the overwhelming white