Clint Eastwood's films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima provide perspectives on war from both the American and Japanese sides. Many war films aim to emotionalize conflicts and dehumanize enemies by showing them as threatening masses rather than individuals. The document discusses topics for discussing representations of war in film, including realism, how they are received by audiences, and how they shape cultural memory versus providing truthful accounts.

2. Conversion narrative?

3. Emotionalizing conflict?

4. Anti-war films appear during isolationism or opposition to a war.

5. Showing American soldiers as averse to bloodshed and cruelty

8. Images of war

9. The war machinery

10. War heroics

11. Letters From Iwo Jima opening

12. The Japanese war machine

13. Japanese honor

14. Letters and the Japanese

15. Letters

16. Hierarchy