@article{ART002103080},
author={Kang, Hyeong-min},
title={A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2016},
volume={29},
number={1},
pages={5-33}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kang, Hyeong-min
TI - A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2016
VL - 29
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 5
EP - 33
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is highly conservative because the film employs the imperialist narratives of religion and violence. In the film, Christianity combined with chauvinistic patriotism justifies the cause of the Iraq War by demonizing and inferiorizing its non-Christian others. The film portrays the protagonist of the film as a warrior waging a crusade against non-Christian savages and evils in Iraq. Furthermore, the film assumes that the protagonist takes the responsibility of a sheepdog as his divine mission that protects the sheep—the American soldiers in Iraq—from the predators—the Iraqi insurgents. However, given the fact that the U.S. was an invading force in Iraq since there were no WMDs in Iraq which was the cause of war, the U.S. troops were the predators who were preying on the Iraqi by devastating Iraq.
The film also shows the fact that the U.S. was an imperialist force in Iraq that had stronger violence than the Iraqi. The film shows that the American soldiers are the punishers who could scare and control the Iraqi with the superior violence. Furthermore, the film takes the revenge plot in which the protagonist punishes the enemy who has killed several American soldiers. However, the revenge plot is preposterous considering the fact that the U.S. was the invader that started the violence in Iraq. Moreover, given the fact that violence has been uncontrollably spreading in Iraq since the war, the use of violence would just make the region more violent.
KW - Clint Eastwood;Chris Kyle;American Sniper;Imperialist Narratives;Postcolonial Criticism
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Kang, Hyeong-min. (2016). A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. Journal of Modern English Drama, 29(1), 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. 2016, "A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.29, no.1 pp.5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min "A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper" Journal of Modern English Drama 29.1 pp.5-33 (2016) : 5.
Kang, Hyeong-min. A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. 2016; 29(1), 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. "A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper" Journal of Modern English Drama 29, no.1 (2016) : 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. Journal of Modern English Drama, 29(1), 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2016; 29(1) 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. 2016; 29(1), 5-33.
Kang, Hyeong-min. "A Postcolonial Study on the Imperialist Narratives in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper" Journal of Modern English Drama 29, no.1 (2016) : 5-33.
