With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations' perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes. Together these works tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." In this volume, international scholars in political science and film, literary, and cultural studies undertake multifaceted investigations into how Eastwood's diptych reflects war today. Fifteen essays explore the intersection among war films, American history, and Japanese patriotism. They present global attitudes toward war memories, icons, and heroism while offering new perspectives on cinema, photography, journalism, ethics, propaganda, war strategy, leadership, and the war on terror.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself
- PART ONE: HISTORY
- The Making and Remaking of an American Icon: 'Raising the Flag on Iwo JIma' from Photojournalism to Global, Digital Media
- The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust's Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile
- Flags of Their Stepfathers? Race and Culture in teh Context of Military Service and the Fight for Citizenship
- PART TWO: FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
- Following the Flag in American Film
- Care or Glory? Picturing a New War Hero
- Beyond Mimesis: War, Memory, and Hisotry in Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers
- Clint Eastwood's Postclassical Multiple Narratives of Iwo Jima
- Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers
- PART THREE: LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
- Eastwood and the Enemy
- East of Eastwood: Iwo Jima and the Japanese Context
- Humanism Versus Patriotism: Eastwood Trapped in the Bi-polar Logic of Warfare
- Suicide in Letters from Iwo Jima
- PART FOUR: WAR TODAY
- To Sell a War: Flags, Lies, and Tragedy
- Banzai! Letters from Iwo JIma and Choosing the Enemy in Risk Society
- Filmography
- Index
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