Faces of the enemy [videorecording] / a film by Bill Jersey, Jeffrey Friedman commentary by Sam Keen produced and directed by Bill Jersey edited and co-directed by Jeffrey Friedman.

[South Burlington, VT?] : California Newsreel, [2010?]
Added to CLICnet on 03/12/2014

DVD-R.
In English. Closed-captioned.
A Quest production for the Catticus Corporation.
Photography, Bill Jersey editor, Jeffrey Friedman music, Mark Adler.
Based on the book by Sam Keen.
DVD version of a 1987 PBS broadcast, with added commentary track and accompanying slide lectures.
In an examination of the images and iconography of war, philosopher Sam Keen interviews journalists, editorial cartoonists, psychologists, and war veterans. They discuss how a language of stereotypes and prejudices tap into viewers’ 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. –Container.
Disc 1. Faces of the enemy (58 min.) — disc 2. Slide lectures: Art of enemy making (22 min.) New enemies : the empire and the terrorists (30 min.) Beyond emnity : toward a politics of compassion (28 min.) — To create an enemy / designed and created by Kyle Lauck (2 min.).
Documentary chapters: Archetypes of the hostile imagination — Conversations with a murderer — The USA vs. the evil empire — Choosing an enemy — Enemies on the battlefield — Propaganda and atrocity — Creating stereotypes — The numbing of the heart.
Special feature: Commentary track for documentary by Bill Jersey and Sam Keen.
Titles of first two slide lectures on menu screen: Enemy making The new enemy.

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