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Our Web page will look at how
three different films have framed war. In trying to understand war
and how it is framed (see definition of framing)
within these movies we have reviewed the movies several times, and then
applied media framing theory to them. While the application of this
theory serves the purpose of picking apart the themes and frames of the
movie, the general understanding of war frames in film comes from what
information is received through that analysis. Each of our pages
deals with a different movie. We have tried to choose a wide variety
from the war film genre in an attempt to represent three different types
of wars. Click on each name to go to the person's page of your choice.
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| Jeff's Page: | Courage Under Fire |
| Chuck's Page: | Full Metal Jacket |
| Dan's Page: | Starship Troopers |
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The following is a table
of media framing terms and their definitions.
| Framing: | the process by which the content of discourse is organized. Framing uses various techniques such as inclusion and exclusion to create the desired effect. |
| Salience: | is making parts of the discourse stand out for an audience. Salience makes discourse memorable for the audience. (Entman) |
| Coherence: | discourse has a series of examples that maintain a sense of truth within the text itself. |
| Fidelity: | discourse is related to and seen as truthful in relation to previous works on the same subject. |
| Contestable Categories: | the use of false or not wholly true categorizations and representations of situations or prominent figures of discourse. (Edelman) |
| Myth: | the stories we create to explain that which can not be explained or that which needs to be explained with fictional characters or situations. |
| Sanitizing: | cleaning or softening harsh discourse in order to take away the abrasive effect it may have. (Katz) |
| Equalizing: | showing both sides of an argument with the most equal attention to both possible. (Katz) |
| Demonizing: | making the discourse or characters in the discourse evil and demon like. (Katz) |
| Selection: | taking specific parts of information and including them to the exclusion of other information. (Entman) |
| Script: | refers to an established and stable sequence of activities and coomponents of an event that have been internalized as a structured mental representation of the event.(Pan and Kosicki) |
| Hypothesis Testing: | the main body of discourse that presents episodes, background information and quotes to increase psychological proximity to the audiences.(Pan and Kosicki) |
| Personalizing: | making a character more personal as a way of relating those characters to the audience. (Katz) |
Edelman, Murray. "Contestable
Categories and Public Opinion." Political Communication, v.
10, 19?, pp. 211-242.
Entman, Robert M. "Framing:
Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm." Journal of
Communication, 43(4),
Autumn, 1993, pp. 52 -58.
Ettema, James S., and Theodore L. Glasser.
"Narrative and Moral Force: The Realization of
Innocence and Guilt Through
Investigative Journalism." Journal of Communication, 38(3),
Summer, 1988, pp. 8-26
Katz, E. "The End of Journalism? Notes on Watching the War" Journal of Communication, 42(3), 1992, pp. 5-?.
Pan, Z. & Kosicki, G. "Framing Analysis: An Approach
to News Discourse"
Political Communication, v. 10, 1993, p.55-75.
Question of Equality, pt. 3. Videotape. Dir. Issac Julien. Testing the Limits Production/Channel Four Television, U.K./Independent Television Service. 1995. 55 min.
Schudson, Michael. "The Politics of Narrative
Form: The Emergence of News Conventions in
Print and Television."
Daedalus, 3 No. 4, 1982, pp. 97 - 111.
Toplin, Robert. History by hollywood University of Illinois Press Chicago 1996.
Tuchman, Gayle. "Telling Stories."
Journal of Communication, v. 26 n. 4 Autumn, 1976, pp.
93 - 97.