The Philosophy of War Films /

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"Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: LaRocca, David, 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War films.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Films de guerre > Histoire et critique.
War films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: war films and the ineffability of war / David LaRocca
  • The aesthetics of war on screen. War and representation / Fredric Jameson
  • War pictures: digital surveillance from foreign theater to homeland security front / Garrett Stewart
  • Lenses into war: digital verite in Iraq war films / Stacey Peebles
  • Beyond panopticism: the biopolitical labor of surveillance and war in contemporary film / Joshua Gooch
  • Seeing soldiers, seeing persons: Wittgenstein, film theory, and Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder arms / Burke Hilsabeck
  • War as condition of self-formation and self-dissolution. Apocalypse within: the war epic as crisis of self-identity / Garry l. Hagberg
  • The violated body: affective experience and somatic intensity in Zero dark thirty / Robert Burgoyne
  • "All in war with time": medium as meditation in Sherman's march / Lawrence F. Rhu
  • The power of memory and the memory of power: wars and graves in Westerns and Jidaigeki / Inger S.B. Brodey
  • The ethical tribulations of war. The ubiquitous absence of the enemy in contemporary Israeli war films / Holger Pötzsch
  • General Patton and Private Ryan: the conflicting reality of war and films about war / Andrew Fiala
  • The work of art in the age of embedded journalism: fiction versus depiction in Zero dark thirty / K. l. Evans
  • War, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular metaphysics on Terrence Malick's The thin red line / Robert Pippin
  • War and its fictional recovery on screen: narrative management of death in The big red one and The thin red line / Elisabeth Bronfen
  • "Profoundly unreconciled to nature": ecstatic truth and the humanistic sublime in Werner Herzog's war films / David LaRocca.

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