Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) as a Post-Vietnam War Film in Search of Moral Legibility

Saving Private Ryan revived the WW2 combat film and used many of its tropes but is still heavily influenced by the Vietnam War films. This creates structural ambiguity in a film that strives to acknowledge the horrors of warfare while still trying to restore the sense of moral legibility and decency...

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Main Author: Mehdi Achouche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2022-05-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/18645
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