Reel War Project

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Reel War Project episodes

August 15, 2022 B10E4 A Crew of Specialists
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron wrap up Batch 10: A Crew of Specialists. We talk about the small squad archetype, violence with stakes, and alienhood rhetoric.
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1 hr 14 min
August 08, 2022 Dirt Maps episode 4: Trek and militarism with Dr. Amanda Taylor
This week on Reel War Project’s Dirt Maps episode four: Trek and Militarim: Dr. Amanda Taylor talks about her research into the martial body and the domestication of war, and then we talk Star Trek and pacifism.
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59 min
August 01, 2022 B10E3 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Charles and Aaron wrap up Batch 10 with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. We talk about nonviolence in the aesthetic of empire, a long standing effort to speak to diversity from the standpoint of power, horny dolphins, and making a blockbuster war movie that never goes to war.
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2 hr 30 min
July 25, 2022 B10E2 Tears of the Sun
This week Charles and Aaron watch Bruce Willis connect Jacksonian Militarism to Global Meliorism while Tom Skerritt shouts into a phone on a very busy flight deck: we watched 2003's Tears of the Sun. Afro Pessimism meets the white savior industrial complex bent on "raising awareness," what we get is lots of shooting, awesome displays of power, "true stories" that never happened, and a spectacle of immolation. "I DON'T LIKE THIS."
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2 hr 38 min
July 18, 2022 B10E1 The Guns of Navarone
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron kick off Batch 10 with 1961's The Guns of Navarone. We continue our discussions about photo-tourism and cinematography and what happens when a book becomes a movie. We also return to Star Wars cultures and movie music influencing sports. Bigger characters, valorized individuals, music for war and football games, all while we Zillow shop for our next military campaign locale against the backdrop of the proto-Death Star.
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2 hr 35 min
July 11, 2022 B9E4 Taking Sides
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron discuss Batch Nine: Taking Sides wherein doing nothing is doing something and we have things to say about it.
We talk about the stupid choices America makes regarding war narratives in movies, storytelling and problems with no clear solutions, and Owen Wilson sliding on ice with the loudest pistol you have ever heard.
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1 hr 1 min
July 04, 2022 B9E3 Behind Enemy Lines
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron accidentally invent propaganda (twice); meanwhile, Owen Wilson takes a million dollar joyride at the expense of the US taxpayer.
Jacksonian Militarism, angelic American exceptionalism and more sequels nobody wanted, we watched Behind Enemy Lines.
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2 hr 24 min
June 27, 2022 B9E2 Welcome to Sarajevo
This week Charles and Aaron continue Batch 9. We explore media re-presentation and accountability via the lenses of objectivity and tourism, and the need to "do something" in the face of atrocity. Don't Worry, Be Happy, it's "Welcome to Sarajevo."
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2 hr 13 min
June 20, 2022 B9E1 Before the Rain
This week Reel War Project Charles and Aaron kick off Batch 9 with one of the most interesting movies yet: Before The Rain (1994). We talk about "quivering otherness," (non)legitimizing representations of violence, and we continue our discussion on the legacies of pacifism. The circle is NOT round, it is a paradox!
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2 hr 20 min
June 13, 2022 B8E4 Boiling Points
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron discuss Batch 8: Boiling Points. Stories that (try to) resist violence; the “inevitability” of war; digital black-face and white positionality; it’s getting Critical, and we are here for it.
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1 hr 18 min

About Reel War Project

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Charles is a Purple-Heart veteran and long-time cinephile; Aaron is a critical rhetorician and Co-Host of The Alien Movie Project and together they are exploring the narrative, affective, and production politics of the most actiony of action movies: The War Movie.