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- Title
»And… Cut!«.
- Authors
Heck, Axel; Schlag, Gabi
- Abstract
The article addresses the increasing interest of Internationale Relations (IR) scholars in using movies in teaching and research in order to illustrate and discuss international politics and IR theories. While film studies encompass a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to studying moving images, IR scholars have often ignored the original aesthetic and narrative aspects of films. We argue that these approaches are helpful for understanding film-specific knowledge production and the creation of meaning. When films are used in the classroom, students should learn to approach moving images from a critical distance and not for entertainment purposes. When films are used as primary sources, methodological reflection might help to create intersubjectively comprehensible results. The central aims of the article are to sketch out a critical perspective on moving images in IR and to show when, how and why films are politically powerful. In order to understand the performative effects of audio-visual representations and visualizations of international politics the film »Zero Dark Thirty« (2012; D: Kathryn Bigelow) and the associated debate on legitimizing torture are used as an illustrative case to show the added value of our approach.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2015, Vol 22, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article