Frames of Reference on the Geopolitical Stage:Saving Private Ryanand the Second World War/Second Gulf War Intertext

The Girl on Fire:The Hunger Games, Feminist Geopolitics and the Contemporary Female Action Hero

“…56 Or, the depiction of Corporal Upham in the 1998 Oscar winner for Best Film, Saving Private Ryan, who has been described as "one of the most contemptible soldiers ever portrayed in a movie", principally because he fails to excel at murdering the enemy like the other soldiers in his unit. 57 In The Hunger Games, however, Peeta is celebrated for his gentleness; a gentleness that, as mentioned, ultimately 'wins' him Katniss over his more aggressive rival, Gale. Unlike Gale, Peeta's desire to revenge himself upon the Capitol is subsidiary to his love for Katniss.…”

Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks

“…Woon (2011) focuses upon the subaltern geopolitics of reactions to the framing of the Philippines as a space of fear in the post-9/11 era, Williams (2002) employs a frame-break analysis in relation to postCold War films, and Smith and Dionisopoulos (2008) focus upon the role of photographic images in the generation of War on Terror themes. Still more work has arguably utilised the notion of the frame in relation to geopolitics without explicitly linking it to frame analysis and Goffman's work (see, for example, Carter, 2007;Crampton & Power, 2005).…”

“…Within popular geopolitics, concerns with media portrayals of militaristic activities have tended to focus on analyses of geopolitical texts, be those comics and cartoons (Dittmer, 2005(Dittmer, , 2013, films (Carter, 2007;Crampton & Power, 2005;Dodds, 2005;O'Tuathail, 2005) or video games (Huntemann & Payne, 2010;Power, 2007). In their paper on the future of popular geopolitics, Dittmer and Gray (2010) suggest that the field has become too heavily dependent on these often elite level, and predominantly representational, analyses, and instead argue that there is a need for a "new popular geopolitics centred on everyday practice and performance" (Dittmer & Gray, 2010, 1665.…”

The radical geopolitics of US foreign policy: the 2003 Iraq War

“…Critical geopolitics of the Iraq War/post-9/11 have mostly examined imaginative geographies and representations associated with the war and how they were mobilized to justify intervention (Bialasiewicz et al 2007;Crampton and Power 2005;Dalby 2008;Debrix 2005;Dittmer 2005;Gregory 2004;Jones and Clarke 2006;Toal 2005Toal , 2006. Others have investigated Arab media (Falah et al 2006), described 9/11 as ''somatic marker'' (Toal 2003), examined aspects of the ''War on Terror'' related to boundaries, sovereignty and territoriality (Elden 2005;Williams and Roach 2006) and discussed whether Bush foreign policy is better conceptualized in terms of empire or hegemony (Agnew 2005).…”