Disappearing war : interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world /

The battles fought in the name of the ́⁰war on terroŕ⁰₉ have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hellmich, Christina, 1978- (Editor ), Purse, Lisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017]
Temas:
War films > History and criticism.
Films de guerre > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
War films
Elfter September
Kriegsfilm
Dokumentarfilm
Krieg > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War / Christina Hellmich and Lisa Purse
  • 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film / Cora Sol Goldstein
  • 3. '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident' / Agnieszka Piotrowska
  • 4. Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk / Robert Burgoyne
  • 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders / Thomas Gregory
  • 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups / James Harvey
  • 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror / Jessica Auchter
  • 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty / Lisa Purse
  • 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq / Janet Harris
  • 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present / Shohini Chaudhuri
  • 11. Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War / Christina Hellmich.

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