In/visible war : the culture of war in twenty-first-century America / edited by Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites.
"In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first-century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This parad...
| Uniform Title: | War culture.
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | War culture.
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| Physical Description: | vi, 278 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Invisible war |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: the paradoxical in/visibility of war / John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons
- Seeing war. How photojournalism has framed the war in Afghanistan / David Campbell
- Returning soldiers and the in/visibility of combat trauma / Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites
- (Re)fashioning PTSD's warrior project / Jeremy G. Gordon
- Unremarkable suffering: banality, spectatorship, and war's in/visibilities / Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol
- Transitio. "War is fun," a photo essay / by Nina Berman
- Laying Bin Laden to rest: a case study of terrorism and the politics of visibility / Jody Madeira
- Not seeing war. Digital war and the public mind: call of duty reloaded, decoded / Roger Stahl
- A cinema of consolation: post-9/11 super invasion fantasy / De Witt Douglas Kilgore
- Differential configurations: in/visibility through the lens of Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Claudia Breger
- Canine rescue, civilian casualties, and the long Gulf War / Purnima Bose
- Theorizing the in/visibility of war. The in/visibility of liberal peace: perpetual peace and enduring freedom / Jon Simons
- Why war? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the absolute televisual image / Diane Rubenstein
- War in the twenty-first century: visible, invisible or superpositional? / James Der Derian.