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Mark Straw
Mark Straw is a Ph.D. student in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Leeds, UK, and an MPhil in American Literature and Film from the University of Birmingham. His current area of research examines masochistic male subjectivity and spectatorship in contemporary war films, media representation of war, and Hollywood film as a form of neo-imperial public diplomacy. He teaches courses on film aesthetics and theory, and North American Cinema.