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Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2

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The Male Body and Death in War

I think it's interesting when we think about the male body and death in war, because since that saving private rhino opening sequence where you see people's legs being blown off. I felt like watching the Brad Pitt tank film Fury, you can do any gore you like now in a war film. We've almost gone from the old school war film where people sort of went and fell over or just had a bit of ketchup appear on them. To the opposite, which is this sort of like grotesqueery and gore. And it's like, I mean, between those two things is just thisThe actual horror of it, you know, the things like when pilots were flying over the file

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