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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christina Hellmich , Lisa PursePublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.471kg ISBN: 9781474416566ISBN 10: 147441656 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 28 February 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsFrom mainstream news coverage of conflict to the use of close-ups in The Master this searching edited collection explores the dialectic between the seen and the unseen in the contemporary war film. The contributors tackle the question of whether the myriad changes to war and the representation of war - via embedded reporting, drones, virtual reality and so on - constitute a deep ideological erasure. Their insights are intellectually and ethically illuminating and advance our understanding of the cultural imagination of war in important ways.--Guy Westwell, QMUL Author InformationChristina Hellmich is Associate Professor in IR & Middle East Studies at the University of Reading. Lisa Purse is Associate Professor in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the Universty of Reading. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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