Issue 11
Notebook

Generation Kill: The Aesthetics of Death.

Francisco Javier Gómez Tarín
Universitat Jaume I
Bio

Published 2011-01-01

Keywords

  • War,
  • Iraq,
  • aesthetics,
  • epic,
  • ethics,
  • death,
  • hero,
  • otherness,
  • military,
  • movies,
  • TV series
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Abstract

Generation Kill (2008), the new proposal of David Simon —The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008)— this time sharing the creative responsibilities with Ed Burns, on the basis of the book by Evan Wright, not only has a suggestive and polysemic title but seriously deals with one of the clearly regrettable and shameful chapters of our times: the Second War in Iraq. The type of reflection that we carry out in this paper is structured around three main concepts: aesthetics, ethics and epic.