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I'm surprised to see Jet Pilot listed as a WWII film made after the war. It's not set in WWII (or during any war except the Cold War), and no combat is depicted. Janet Leigh does look great in that white leather flying suit. User:Stedder

Yeah, it's a Cold War film. Not sure how it got in there; I've removed it from the list, there are enough other examples there already. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:52, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly the genre has to date been strongly associated with the 20th century, as many of the cited sources attest. Articles must state the case at the time of writing based on the sources available: nobody doubts that things may change in future, but until reliable sources say otherwise, the association is correctly stated. The article already discusses a 19th century war, the 1898 Spanish–American War, but this does not change the overall picture, which has been to focus on the 20th century to the exclusion of all others. There could have been "war films" about the wars of Roman times, or the Wars of the Roses, but these have been thought of differently by filmmakers, audiences, and critics. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:59, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rjensen, I'm sorry to have had to remove some of your additions. Your new cited text is welcome, but the breaking of existing citations, the addition of unneeded "further reading", and the repeated insertion against consensus of material about one particular university course (your own? that'd be WP:COIorWP:ADV) is wholly inappropriate. Please stop; if you have valid reasons, you should have presented them here per WP:BRD rather than reinserting them without discussion. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:37, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK -- I read about the U Maine course in a good article in a teaching journal that I though deserves the attention of teachers looking for ideas on how to use war films. I rephrased the text. Rjensen (talk) 09:49, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for discussing. I think we'd have a job to fit a section about the academics who study and write about the subject here, it's getting a bit "meta"; it'd make more sense in an article on Film scholarship or something of that sort. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:55, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this one does surprise me. I have no idea why anyone should think that we should not include a film's original name in the caption in the lead image; among other things, it's the film's actual name, and it's desirable also that the article should be seen to be even-handed across languages, nationalities, "sides", and cultures. No reason has been given for the repeated removal of the name (i.e. this was slowed-down edit-warring, not great), so it's hard to say if this was a thought-out edit or something worse. Anyway, I've reverted it with a proper explanation, and am open to rational discussion. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:31, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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