Abstract
The purpose of this article is to delineate the spectrum of meanings created by the exposure and the covering of the male body in international war cinema. The analysis will focus on the symptomatic situations in which the soldier discards his uniform or hides it under layers of clothing, e.g. initiation into the army, bathing, military defeat, psychological breakdown. The article proposes a typology of male bodies, including different national variants of the transformed body, the deceptive liberated body, the defeated body and, finally, the traumatized body. This typology is framed within the context of the conventional modes of visualizing combatant masculinity on screen.
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