UID:
almafu_9959232366302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:
0-8135-8539-2
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0-8135-8540-6
Serie:
War Culture
Inhalt:
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The Paradox of War's In/visibility /
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Part I: Seeing War --
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1. How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan /
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2. Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma /
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3. (Re)fashioning PTSD's Warrior Project /
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4. Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War's In/visibilities /
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Transition --
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"War Is Fun," a Photo-Essay /
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5. Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility /
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Part II: Not Seeing War --
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6. Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded /
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7. A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/ 11 Super-Invasion Fantasy /
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8. Differential Configurations: In/visibility Through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008) /
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9. The Canine-Rescue Narrative, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War /
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Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War --
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10. The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom /
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11. Why War? Derrida, Baudrillard, and the Absolute Televisual Image /
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12. War in the Twenty-First Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional? /
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Photo Credits --
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Index
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8135-8538-4
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.36019/9780813585406
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