Cine bélico. Cuerpos, espacios y verdad

Abstract

One of the most prolific of genres during the golden age of classic American cinema, the war film has suffered the same fate as those other key genres: the western and the musical. Shifting fashions, the absence of a handover from one generation of filmmakers to the next and changing habits in the industry and among audiences have seen it reduced to a virtual irrelevance. At a time when so many armed conflicts are being fought around the world, and in an era when institutionalised violence has become globalised, it is something of a paradox that the war film, which seeks truth through bodies and spaces, should become a genre seen only intermittently when it ought to be reflecting reality.