Couronné par de nombreux prix en 2013, le film «Zero Dark Thirty» a donné lieu à une grande étendue d'articles sur l’œuvre. Pour un aperçu de la réception critique, nous proposons ici seulement quelques-uns des articles académiques les plus pertinents en regard de nos recherches et ne saurait aucunement être exhaustif :
«"Zero Dark Thirty" attempts to use the scope of influence of the film to engage with two groups of audience at the same time: First, people of America and those who perceived themselves as the victims of terrorism, and waiting many years after September 11 events for the punishments of the agents. Second, members of terrorist groups and their supporters.» -Younes Rashidi, Ghazaleh Saei, Mohammad Reza Faraji, Leila Hosseininha, «The Mediating Role of Cinema in Representation of Hard Power Case Study: The movie "Zero Dark Thirty"»
Source: http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/viewFile/13624/14220
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«The whole story the film tells, both in terms of the time scale and the type of human effort it depicts, is likely to create some important misconceptions for the public about how our national security system really works.[...] We’ve got the go-it-alone gunslinger, Maya, whose past is murky and future is vague. She’s Clint Eastwood’s “Man With No Name,” re-imagined as a twenty-something woman. She gathers up a posse, heads out, and kills the bad guy. Then she leaves. Because she’s not actually Clint Eastwood, she cries a little. » -Nada Bakos, «How True is Zero Dark Thirty? A Former Operative Weighs In»
Source: http://www.psmag.com/legal-affairs/how-true-is-zero-dark-thirty-a-former-operative-weighs-in-51659/
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«Before any actor speaks a single fictional line, then, Zero Dark Thirty makes two choices: it aligns its methods with those of journalists and historians, and it appropriates as drama what remains the most undigested trauma in American national life during the last several decades.» -Steve Coll, «Disturbing and Misleading»
Source: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/disturbing-misleading-zero-dark-thirty/