Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

This volume fills in the gap in the existing war film criticism by offering insights into how the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) and the Iraq War (2003-2011) have been represented in popular and documentary filmic productions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Spain, and Australia.

Auteur

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz is Associate Professor of British Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She is the author of Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction (2012) and The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 (2002), and co-editor of The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (2014) and The Enemy in Contemporary Film (2018).

Marek Paryz is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His current research focuses on the Western across narrative arts, and he has co-edited The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (2022).