본문 바로가기
KERD
논문KCI 등재

미국 예외주의의 변주: 영화 <라이언 일병 구하기>와 <위 워 솔저스>

Variation of American Exceptionalism: Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers

진성한
미국학연구소 (American Studies Institute)|2021.06|미국학 (American Studies)|제44권 제1호|pp. 155-182|DOI 10.18078/amstin.2021.44.1.006

0

조회

0

다운로드

2

인용

0

참고문헌

키워드

American exceptionalismAmerican war filmsSaving Private RyanWe Were Soldiers
주제분류학제간연구

초록

This study explores how American war films modify or reenact American exceptionalism depending on political and social situations in the United States. To this end, it analyzes the two war films, Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers that were released before and after the 9/11 attacks as a critical juncture in the twenty first century, respectively. While the former conducts a partial modification on American exceptionalism in order to restore the national identity and moral authority of the United States lost ever since the Vietnam War, the latter demonstrates a complete reenactment of American exceptionalism in accordance with the foreign policy of the Bush administration and neoconservatism. It concludes with the illumination that the examination of American war films within the framework of American exceptionalism is efficacious in understanding from a broad perspective how American exceptionalism is utilized depending on political and social situations in the United States.

Abstract

This study explores how American war films modify or reenact American exceptionalism depending on political and social situations in the United States. To this end, it analyzes the two war films, Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers that were released before and after the 9/11 attacks as a critical juncture in the twenty first century, respectively. While the former conducts a partial modification on American exceptionalism in order to restore the national identity and moral authority of the United States lost ever since the Vietnam War, the latter demonstrates a complete reenactment of American exceptionalism in accordance with the foreign policy of the Bush administration and neoconservatism. It concludes with the illumination that the examination of American war films within the framework of American exceptionalism is efficacious in understanding from a broad perspective how American exceptionalism is utilized depending on political and social situations in the United States.

참고문헌 (38)

  1. 강선주, "미국의 20세기 전쟁에 대한 공식화된 기억: 세계대전과 베트남 전쟁을 중심으로", 미국학 논집, 40(2), pp.5~39 (2008), 한국아메리카학회
  2. 강형민, "클린트 이스트우드의 American Sniper에 나타난 제국주의 담론에 대한 탈식민주의적 연구", 현대영미드라마, 29(1), pp.5~33 (2016), 한국현대영미드라마학회
  3. 배영수, "미국 예외론의 대안을 찾아서" (2011), 일조각
  4. 세이무어 마틴 립셋, "미국 예외주의: 미국에는 왜 사회주의 정당이 없는가" (2006), 도서출판 후마니타스
  5. 유정완, "사냥꾼과 병사, 그리고 베트남 전쟁: <디어 헌터>와 『 우리는 왜 베트남에 있는가? 』 비교", 현대영미소설, 19(3), pp.105~132 (2012), 한국현대영미소설학회[DOI]
  6. 이수진, "Post-American World에서 미국 예외주의의 다양성", 미국학 논집, 52(3), pp.61~90 (2020), 한국아메리카학회
  7. 정윤길, "포스트 9․11 시대와 이스트우드주의: <그랜 토리노>와 <아메리칸 스나이퍼>에 나타난 서부영화의 신화 내면화하기 연구", 영어권문화연구, 9(3), pp.227~255 (2016), 영어권문화연구소[DOI]
  8. 최영진, "기억과 재현의 정치학 : 미국과 한국 베트남 전쟁영화를 중심으로", 국제정치연구, 22(2), pp.135~164 (2019), 동아시아국제정치학회[DOI]
  9. Assmann, J, "Cultural memory studies: An international and interdisciplinary handbook", pp.109~118 (2008), Walter de Gruyter
  10. Burlingame, M, "New light on the Bixby Letter", Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 16(1), pp.59~71 (1995)
  11. Bodnar, J, "Saving Private Ryan and postwar memory in America", The American Historical Review, 106(3), pp.805~817 (2001)
  12. Brooks, S, "American exceptionalism in the age of Obama" (2012), Routledge
  13. Campbell, J, "The hero with a thousand faces" (2008), New World Library
  14. Cohen, E, "What combat does to man: Private Ryan and its critics", The National Interest, 54, pp.82~88 (1999)
  15. Doherty, T, "Full metal genre: Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam combat movie", Film Quarterly, 42(2), pp.24~30 (1989)
  16. Erll, A, "Cultural memory studies: An international and interdisciplinary handbook", pp.389~398 (2008), Walter de Gruyter
  17. Gates, P, "Fighting the good fight’: The real and the moral in the contemporary Hollywood combat film", Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22(4), pp.297~310 (2005)
  18. Hasian, M, "Nostalgic longings, memories of the “good war,” and cinematic representations in Saving Private Ryan", Critical Studies in Media Communication, 18(3), pp.338~358 (2001)
  19. Herring, G. C, "The ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ and American foreign policy", The Virginia Quarterly Review, 57(4), pp.594~612 (1981)
  20. Hoffmann, S, "American exceptionalism and human rights", pp.225~240 (2009), Princeton University Press
  21. Holsti, K. J, "Exceptionalism in American foreign policy: Is it exceptional?", European Journal of International Relations, 17(3), pp.381~404 (2011)
  22. Jasinski, J, "Sourcebook on rhetoric: Key concepts in contemporary rhetorical studies" (2001), Sage Publications
  23. Jeffords, S, "The remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War" (1989), Indiana University Press
  24. Johnson, B. D, "A private world war", pp.47~ (1998), Maclean’s
  25. 주정숙, "Netflix and Changes in the Hollywood Film Industry", 산업융합연구, 18(5), pp.36~41 (2020), 대한산업경영학회[DOI]
  26. McCrisken, T, "American exceptionalism and the legacy of Vietnam: US foreign policy since 1974" (2003), Palgrave Macmillan
  27. McCrisken, T, "American history and contemporary Hollywood film" (2005), Edinburgh University Press
  28. Nymalm, N, "Comparative exceptionalism: Universality and particularity in foreign policy discourses", International Studies Review, 21(1), pp.12~37 (2019)
  29. Owen, A. S, "Memory, war and American identity: Saving Private Ryan as cinematic jeremiad", Critical Studies in Media Communication, 19(3), pp.249~282 (2002)
  30. Pötzsch, H, "Framing narratives: Opening sequences in contemporary American and British war films", Media, War & Conflict, 5(2), pp.155~173 (2012)
  31. Ritter, K. W, "American political rhetoric and the jeremiad tradition: Presidential nomination acceptance addresses, 1960–1976", Communication Studies, 31(3), pp.153~171 (1980)
  32. Robinson, N, "Have you won the war on terror? Military videogames and the state of American exceptionalism", Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(2), pp.450~470 (2014)
  33. Slotkin, R, "Regeneration through violence: The mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860" (1973), University of Oklahoma Press
  34. Spanos, W. V, "Redeemer nation and apocalypse: Thinking the exceptionalism of American exceptionalism", Literature Interpretation Theory, 25(2), pp.174~200 (2014)
  35. Spielberg, S, "Saving P rivate Ryan" (1998), Amblin Entertainment; Mutual Film Company
  36. Sturken, M, "Tangled memories: The Vietnam war, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering" (1997), University of California Press
  37. Szpunar, P. M, "The horror at Fort Hood: Disseminating American exceptionalism", Media, Culture & Society, 35(2), pp.182~198 (2013)
  38. Wallace, R, "We were soldiers" (2002), Icon Productions;Wheelhouse Entertainment

이 간행물의 다른 논문 (5건)

『호밀밭의 파수꾼』에 나타난 1950년대 미국 청소년의 정동과 질병서사김창희pp. 1-37몽고증과 미국 사회의 ‘오리엔트적 상상’(Oriental Imaginary)신지혜pp. 39-79미국 대통령 의제에 대한 여당의 투표 행태: 111-116대 의회 여당 하원의원들의 대통령지지투표 분석이종곤pp. 81-112「샐리의 선택」: 엘리자베스 스토다드의 독특한 남북 전쟁 이야기장기윤pp. 113-135Madness, the Smile, and Transnational Connections in “A Whisper in the Dark”진성은pp. 137-154
원문 보기