Disappearing War : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World Paperback / softback
by Christina Hellmich
Edited by Lisa Purse
Paperback / softback
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Illuminates the extent to which people, images and experiences are erased from cultural representations of contemporary warfare The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' 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 unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens?
What are their consequences? Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided.
Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper, to documentaries like Kill List and Dirty Wars, as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions.
Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations. Contributors Jessica Auchter, University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaRobert Burgoyne, University of St AndrewsShohini Chaudhuri, University of EssexCora Sol Goldstein, California State University, Long BeachThomas Gregory, University of AucklandJanet Harris, award-winning documentary producer/directorJames Harvey-Davitt, Anglia Ruskin University and University of GreenwichChristina Hellmich, University of ReadingAgnieszka Piotrowska, award-winning documentary filmmaker and theoristLisa Purse, University of Reading
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781474437523
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474437523