Transition between two social systems
| SHORT DEFINITION | These pathos scenes bring to the fore the difference between the quotidian sociality of civilian life and military sociality in the state of emergency which is war. In particular, these scenes portray aspects and processes of transition, variations and modifications of civilian sociality with the goal of establishing a military sociality. |
| CONSTELLATIONS | These pathos scenes are thus characterized by a number of central, recurring motifs. .
The first includes all rituals of transition that bring someone out of a daily, civilian community and integrate them into the new community of the troop. Second, within this transition, cleaving the community into masculine and feminine often plays a major role. This is conveyed cinematically as the experience of separation. Third, real biological reproduction is replaced by the abstract principle of asexual propagation, portrayed by the immediate substitution of lost members of this community Fourth, the military community is portrayed as a purely paternal structure. This is staged on the one hand via variations of father figures, on the other hand by reminders of the heroes, founders, and father figures who gave their lives for the community. Fifth and final, the established military community is characterized in particular by the fact that the images of quotidian moments of military life mirror, in their character constellations, the domestic structures of civilian life |
| AFFECTIVE DIMENSION | These pathos scenes secure their affective potential primarily through the cinematic staging of moments of the loss of aspects and elements of civilian society on the one hand, and moments of merging into a new community on the other hand. |
Apocalypse Now
- Mission for lunch
- Boat, crew, biography
- Beach party
- Playboy show
- Inner decay and biography III
- First encounter with Kurtz
- The Horror
Attack
- First battle on the hill
- Coffee for the captain
- Power play
- Mobilization
- Deployment planning and threat
- Broken promise
- Impotent authority
- Fears and thirst for revenge
- Costa's death
- Cooney's Death
- Woodruff's sense of duty
Band of Brothers - Episode 1: Currahee
- Waiting and postponement
- Drill
- End of initiation
- Training and train journey
- Leadership crisis and rebellion
- Arrival and preparations
- Take-Off
Bataan*
- Attack on the refugee trek*
- March across the bridge*
- The Sergeant and his squad*
- Second Address / The Sergeant and his family*
- Ducks in a shooting gallery*
- The caring father*
- Exhaustion and the cared-for father*
- Conversation in the break*
- Exhaustion and wounds*
- The commonly written letter and the killed sailor
Fixed Bayonets
- Title card and attack from nowhere
- The mission
- Night watch
- Conversations in the cave and cold feet
- Meditations about the army
- Enemy medics
- Psychological warfare
- Death in the minefield
- Bowling and Jonesy's ear
- Attack and retreat
- Surgery
- Rock's death and passing on command
Guadalcanal Diary
- Service and leisure time on deck
- The fleet and mission briefing
- Preparation and waiting
- Landing
- The village
- Hoisting the flag
- Japanese messages
- Back to the battlefield
- Attack from the air
- Attack at night
- More reinforcements
- Briefing
- Letters home
- Marching on
Gung Ho!*
- Address 1*
- Recruitment selection*
- Address 2*
- Togetherness and the experience of separation*
- Address 3*
- Separation from civilian life and the girl*
- Confinement in the submarine*
- Group body in the submarine*
- Briefing in the submarine*
- Preparation to land, landing*
- Victory speech and commemoration of the victims*
Objective, Burma!
- Initial situation
- Operation Red Robin
- Gathering and briefing
- Williams joins in
- Conversations on the plane/ Jump
- Prolonged stay
- The group splits up
- Airborne supply
- Procession
- Ambush
- Lost chance
- Dropped supplies
- Reunited
Sahara*
- A new troop
- Break and memories of home
- Tambul und Guiseppe
- First victim and a spring run dry*
- Motivational speech
- Salvation and commemoration*
Sands of Iwo Jima*
- Camp and first address
- Like father and son
- Learning the hard way
- No liberty for three months
- Tent conversations
- The ball
- Solidarity with Stryker
- Jeep-Scene
- On the couch
- Bayonet dance
- The Wedding
- Below deck
- Cries in the darkness
- Replacements and beating
- Stryker and the single mother
- Father-son conflict in the bar
- Grenade training - the life-saving father
- The landing - Iwo Jima
- Reconciliation
- Died for flag and country
The Steel Helmet
- The beginning of a friendship
- Fog and encounter 1
- Fog and encounter 2
- Melons and booby trap
- Auld Lang Syne
- Dog Tag for Short Round
- Parting and praise for the infantry
- Survival and departure
Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Reception of the General
- Foreign policy
- Torpedos
- American apprehensions
- Poem and speech
- Japanese strategy deciphered
- Japanese cruiser and American admiralty
- Prayer before battle
