Enemy making. New enemy. To create an Enemy. Beyond enmity.
Notes:
Sam Keen, Robert Lifton, Steven Kull. Based on the book by Sam Keen. DVD version of a 1987 PBS broadcast, with added commentary track and accompanying slide lectures. This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Running time is for both discs. Special features include: Commentary track for documentary by Bill Jersey and Sam Keen.
Contents:
Disc 1: Faces of the Enemy (57 min.) -- Disc 2: 3 Slide Lectures by Sam Keen: A Supplement to Faces of the Enemy -- To Create an Enemy ... (2 min.) -- Enemy Making (22 min.) -- The New Enemy (30 min.) -- Beyond Enmity (28 min.).
Summary:
Publisher description: In a revealing examination of the images and iconography of war, Social Psychologist Sam Keen interviews journalists, editorial cartoonists, psychologists, and war veterans. They discuss how an almost universal language of stereotypes and prejudices tap into viewer's most visceral emotions. Psychologists Robert Lifton and Steven Kull explain how war and artificial enemies provide people with the moral and mental certainties they crave, giving them a sense of purpose in a sometimes ambiguous world.
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