Come You Masters of War: Visions of War, Authority and the Enemy in Stephen Spielberg's 1941 and Saving Private Ryan

Abstract: 

This paper studies the evolution of the thought of director Stephen Spielberg on war by contrasting parallel images in two of his films, 1941 (1979) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg, once he had power to shape decisions, evolved a similar worldview to that of the earlier generation that he once opposed.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Sethuraman
Last Name: 
Srinivasan
Institution: 
Lone Star College, Tomball