Introduction The film American Sniper is one kind of popular culture that tries to entrench American identities1 by presenting the story of a patriot man who serves as American soldier in Iraq war2. Although the film tries to show American identity as a superhero that uses violence only to protect his own country3, there are still some questions to be considered; for example, both American and their enemy do kill the children but why Americans are so proud of themselves while hating their enemy so much, even if it is the same act? Or why this hero loves his country so much that he can desert his family and sacrifice his own life? Is this is the consequences from the process of constituting American identities? These are some questions I raised
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This bias can be both good and bad. For American Sniper, I found it as media with bad bias. Because it chose to present American identities as the best country in this world, while presents the Muslim and Iraqi as a threat to world’s security. So, out in the present world where conflict between United States and the terrorist group has not been defused yet, projecting this film is not make situation better. On the other hand, this will intensify the conflict because this film will make American citizen feel bad and hate those who are Muslim and Iraqi; while the Muslim and Iraqi will feel that they were intervened by United States and will have more hatred to American. To conclude, this film makes conflict between American and Muslim/Iraqi more severe.
Conclusion
American Sniper is the film that tries to present American identities as hero and jingoism. To make American identities means that this film has to construct non-American identities; in this film, it construct American enemy as Al-Qaeda group of Muslim and Iraqi. For jingoism, it was presented as policy makers’ tools to make American citizen love their own country and will willingly fight for United States. Thus, when we read this American sniper film oppositely, we can see that this film does not entrench American identities but, instead, destabilize its own country’s
This bias can be both good and bad. For American Sniper, I found it as media with bad bias. Because it chose to present American identities as the best country in this world, while presents the Muslim and Iraqi as a threat to world’s security. So, out in the present world where conflict between United States and the terrorist group has not been defused yet, projecting this film is not make situation better. On the other hand, this will intensify the conflict because this film will make American citizen feel bad and hate those who are Muslim and Iraqi; while the Muslim and Iraqi will feel that they were intervened by United States and will have more hatred to American. To conclude, this film makes conflict between American and Muslim/Iraqi more severe.
Conclusion
American Sniper is the film that tries to present American identities as hero and jingoism. To make American identities means that this film has to construct non-American identities; in this film, it construct American enemy as Al-Qaeda group of Muslim and Iraqi. For jingoism, it was presented as policy makers’ tools to make American citizen love their own country and will willingly fight for United States. Thus, when we read this American sniper film oppositely, we can see that this film does not entrench American identities but, instead, destabilize its own country’s