This week Flashback covers its first World War II film as we take a look at David Ayer's tank film Fury. Ruth Lawlor, postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell University, joins to help dissect this 2014 war blockbuster. We discuss the WWII as a film genre, the aesthetics of war films, sexual violence on the front, and whether Fury's historical grounding impeded its ability to be a good movie. 

This episode contains frank discussion of sexual violence, assault, and contains strong language. Listener discretion is advised. 

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Flashback is graciously supported by the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute

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