Migrations of Media Aesthetics: Anachronisms and Reflexivity in ILUMINADOS POR EL FUEGO

Abstract

This essay explores how representations of war in news and documentary media have migrated into the war film genre, transcending the bounds of historical chronology and allowing the aesthetics of historical media to be transposed into filmic representations of contemporary conflicts.

Keywords

• aesthetics
• anachronism
• migration
• war
• experience
• iluminados por el fuego
• saving private ryan