Between Unsanitized Depiction and ‘Sensory Overload’: The Deliberate Ambiguities of Generation Kill (HBO, 2008)

This article examines Generation Kill’s deliberately ambiguous discourse on war, as the series stages, in a mise en abyme, armed invasion and the spectacle of war as somewhere between orgasmic excitement and boredom – between “sensory overload” (as one Marine calls it in the last minutes of story) a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monica Michlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures 2016-06-01
Series:TV Series
Subjects:
war
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/1293