![]() ![]() Then Franklin goes on to talk about how many people began to protest the wars and turn against the traditional views of America always being right. The people once again saw the horrors of war, this time in living color. Unlike the footage from the World Wars, this was up close, personal and downright disgusting. Franklin argues that with the controversial end of WWII, people had once again begun to question the legitimacy of America’s conflicts and this finally went over the edge when footage from Vietnam and Korea came back home. Probably the most influential was The Battle Cry of Peace, a 1915 smash hit that plays a crucial role in rousing the public against Germany by showing realistic scenes of the invasion and devastation of America by a rapacious Germanic army ( Franklin 52).Ī new chapter of how American’s viewed war came about during the Cold War. This is proven when he states that in the United States the most important photographic images were movies designed to inflame the nation, first to enter the war and then to support it. This built the publics view of war as honorable and right even further. Very little actual footage of the fighting made it to the masses but a lot of Hollywood glorified fictions did. This could have served the same purpose as photography during the Civil War but film allowed for staged performances that could glorify a war as much as a painting. ![]() During both World Wars, film was becoming a prevalent media medium. Each of these conflicts encompassed unfair treatment of other people as well as the terrible fighting that Americans had so recently abhorred, but the media swept all this under the carpet of nationalism and manifest destiny. Such a view justified conflicts such as the Spanish-American War, various South American acquisitions, and the colonization of overseas lands. America was once again the greatest nation on Earth, incapable of wrong. ![]() It is not really ethical to change sides with swaying of time. During the period of American militarism and imperialism, people were caught up in the sweeping tide of nationalism. With Franklins views pointing out how the war was really like with the invention of photography, people started to move from their traditional views of war being an glorious and courageous affair to doubt the righteousness of the conflict.įranklin also uses ethos to describe how people were not really that ethical with their views changing again after the Civil War. These views of the war were further portrayed in books such as The Red Badge of Courage, which painted war, not as something to be glorified, but as a revolting catastrophe (Franklin 50). Bruce Franklin points out in “From Realism to Virtual Reality” that photographers had done something akin to bringing dead bodies back and laying them in the streets (Franklin 49). He uses logos to describe the logic behind the new invention of photography, and uses pathos to show and describe the suffering brought into reality from the invention of photography, and putting into use and bringing the cold, stark realities of war back home to the people. This changed, however, when Franklin talks about the Civil War ravaging the country in the 1860’s. ![]() Anyone who did not witness any fighting had no idea what war was really like and thought of it as a courageous and right thing to do. American’s believed that they were good and that their war was good. He starts of saying how the war was glorified in paintings and any injustices that were committed were tucked neatly under the cover of romanticism or nationalism. He keeps the audience enthralled which are the people who read the Georgia Review by arguing that american wars have been largely influenced by how they are portrayed in the various mediums of public media. The use of descriptive words to make the wars seem more horrific, and the use of sarcastic writing about some of the events makes the tone of the essay seem more persuasive in what he is trying to argue how photography, films and the increase in technology manipulate people. In this essay there are several places where he breaks down logos, pathos and ethos to make his argument more persuading. Bruce Franklin’s article “From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars,” was published in the Georgia Review. ![]()
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