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case against von Braun is represented initially by his fiancée Maria (Victoria Shaw) who is jealous of his commitment to space exploration and questions his humanitarianism. Later in the film, his chief critic is an American officer Taggert (James Daley) who has lost his wife and child in a V-2 attack. This character, according to Lee Thompson ( 1960 ), is ‘a “composite” of many influential people in America who still hold the view that von Braun
. The act of emasculation – the disabling of the guns – is carried out not so much in the strategic pursuit of military victory but as an act of humanitarianism which will allow the evacuation of British forces on a neighbouring island. Although the 2,000 servicemen trapped on Kheros will clearly be useful in the future prosecution of the war, their function in the film is primarily symbolic, to stand in opposition to the guns
but Vorzet. While Vorzet’s unexplored despair and mischievous penmanship lead to him having his throat cut, the jaundiced but honest Germain (whose brusqueness hides a cynical humanitarianism, it seems) is reconciled by these troubling events to accept human weakness and his union with the sluttish Denise. Although virtue thus seems finally to win against vice, both Vorzet and Germain are revealed to have a dual identity, and for much of the film Germain appears to be a rather unsympathetic, self-righteous figure, whereas Vorzet seems more worldly wise and tolerant
‘progress’ associated with an Enlightenment view of the past. His position, in one sense, is closer to that postulated by Marxist historians who have highlighted the negative side of historical development. Theodor Adorno, for instance, asserts that ‘No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb . . . the One and All that keeps rolling on to this day – with occasional breathing spells – would teleologically be the absolute of suffering’. (quoted in Eagleton, 1996 : 50) But White’s perspective
movies he made with Charles Bronson in the 1980s. Here, Van Leyden offers a defence in terms of both expediency and humanitarianism: ‘I like children as much as you do’, he tells Catherine, ‘but that boy … is a symbol of an outworn tradition that stands between my country and freedom … I must kill him, in order to save the lives of thousands. One life will be lost, but thousands will be saved.’ It is Bridie who relieves
raising political issues in moral terms. But a film like this, with the mistrust and resentment of politicians that it makes so explicit, must still ultimately throw the responsibility back to them. One would have welcomed a little more straight political thinking along with the humanitarianism’. 110 Equally excluded from the direct interviews are the passive onlookers who observe the marchers as they pass through their
in contemporary society. Political discourse is deeply embedded in the pieces, as they raise pertinent questions of international responsibility, civic duty, humanism, and humanitarianism. After the current craze for all things Scandinavian – from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to The Killing and the knitted jumpers worn by its central protagonist Sarah Lund, to Michelin-starred Danish restaurants – has inevitably died away, Sweden’s place in the world as expressed artistically in film and television (or film-as-television) will, I predict, remain tantalisingly
support to the idea that the elite-driven model becomes less applicable as we move away from major war fighting circumstances. With respect to the explanatory variables associated with the elite-driven model – patriotism, the ideology of humanitarianism and, to a lesser extent, reliance upon official sources – these were all found to be relevant in helping to explain why so much coverage was supportive. Here, emerging from our findings are important implications for the importance of news sources and media management relative to patriotism, the impact of new technology
and humanitarianism in shaping coverage. ‘Lapdogs to the coalition’: evidence for supportive coverage during the invasion period Heavy reliance upon coalition sources As detailed in Chapter 3, a major feature of the elite-driven model is the propensity of news media to rely overwhelmingly on official sources, in particular under conditions of war. Our findings for sources used in both television and press conform closely to this pattern and show a clear tendency towards a supportive mode of reporting from 20 March onwards. For television coverage, the coalition was
’, ‘classic perfection’, ‘peaceful universalism’ and ‘rational humanitarianism’. 12 However, those same practitioners were influenced also by some of the more disturbing aspects of the period which they lived through, and this was also to shape the evolution of the ‘true style’. By the time that the ‘true style’ came to prominence in the 1780s, for example, the heroic providentialist ideals of the early