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War films analysis book – “The Philosophy of War Films” (University Press of Kentucky, HC, 2014, PB, 2018) – David LaRocca interview

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David LaRocca has studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion. He’s worked with a number of institutions where he has studied and taught these subjects. We talk about his editing work on a recent book on war films.

0:42 – David talks about how he got into studying war films. He was first interested in war photography.

4:33 – David talks about the focus of the book and begins talking about Werner Herzog.

8:46 – David talks about the philosophy of war and war films.

17:27 – David talks about who and what war movies are for. Are they for veterans or for non-military audiences?

22:08 – David talks about how realistic war movies can be.

26:44 – David talks about how movies have a way of telling stories that may conflict with actual events.

37:06 – David talks about who makes war movies versus who undergoes the experience.

43:53 – David talks about serializing war stories.

45:19 – David talks about video games and war stories.

49:12 – David talks about the various disciplines applied in this book.

59:24 – David’s work can be found at DavidLaRocca.org.

Links of interest

http://davidlarocca.org/David_LaRocca.org/David_LaRocca.html

http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=3324#.W_ypnzFReM9

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Guests: David LaRocca

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, Werner Herzog, Jeff Wall, Christian Bale, Saving Private Ryan, veterans, Normandy, Spielberg, Restrepo, Chris Kyle, American Sniper, video games

Modern military analysis and history book – “Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia” (Cambridge University Press, 2018) – Aurel Croissant interview

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Dr. Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg. His main research interests include the comparative analysis of political structures and processes in East- and Southeast Asia, the theoretical and empirical analysis of democracy, civil-military relations, terrorism and political violence. We discussed his latest book on civil-military relations in Southeast Asia.

0:55 – Aurel talks about how he got into studying Southeast Asian military affairs.

1:45 – Aurel talks about the countries that he focuses on in the book.

3:59 – Aurel talks about how these various countries developed their military institutions. Both the western model and the Soviet model have had an affect on these countries.

9:28 – Aurel talks about the military startegies of these countries.

10:21 – Aurel talks about these militaries roles in their respective societies.

13:53 – Aurel talks about which servies dominate the various militaries.

15:18 – Aurel talks about how he did the research for the book.

19:27 – Aurel talks about the influence that elites have in civil-military continuity.

27:34 – Aurel can be found on the Heidelberg University website.

Links of interest

https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/croissant_en.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/civilmilitary-relations-in-southeast-asia/6E22E7C9244503D345920BF7F44347A2

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Guests: Aurel Croissant

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, Southeast Asia, independence, colonialism, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia

WWI history book – “The Myriad Legacies of 1917 – A Year of War and Revolution” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) -Maartje Abbenhuis interview

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Maartje Abbenhuis is a historian of of neutrality and internationalism, especially in regards to Europe from 1815 to 1919. She’s written numerous articles and books on the subject and teaches at the University of Auckland. We talk about her most recent work, a collection of essays on WWI in 1917 that she co-edited.

1:05 – Maartje talks about how she got into editing a book on WWI.

6:17 – We discuss the parallel between Lord of the Rings and WWI.

9:09 – Maartje talks about the essays in the book.

10:54 – Maartje talks about security and civil rights during WWI.

13:15 – Maartje talks about how the book reflects the New Zealand symposium that it was meant to accompany.

18:06 – Maartje talks about India’s involvement in WWI and also about Indian resistane to the British at this time.

25:12 – Maartje talks about New Zealand and WWI.

30:15 – Maartje talks about some of the research that went into the essays and what the collection goals were. She mentions that two of the essays were written by museum curators and directors.

33:18 – Maartje talks about German memories of WWI.

43:17 – Maartje talks about the global effects of WWI.

56:55 – Maartje talks about New Zealand and how its foundation myths connect to WWI.

1:00:26 – Maartje is on twitter @maartjeabb.

Links of interest

https://twitter.com/maartjeabb?lang=en

https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319736846

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Guests: Maartje Abbenhuis

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, India, Britian, WWII, Germany, New Zealand, WWI, Empire, Ottoman, Maori, Australia, United States, California, latin America, globalization, industrial warfare