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Author: Dr. Katy Parry (University of Leeds, UK) ,
Mani Sharpe (University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9798765129203
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
War Faces on Screen is not just another book about visualizing war, but an incisive critical anatomy of how faces absorb, perform and resist military violence. From disfigured physiognomies to AI-generated pathos, the volume exposes the affective and ideological charge of both full-frontal visibility and strategic opacity. What emerges is a dense interdisciplinary archive of facial aesthetics and politics — from Hollywood close-ups to drone vision, postcolonial defacement to digital gloss. This conceptually rich volume treats the face not as surface but as interface: a screen of projection, a site of trauma and a battleground of meaning. A major contribution to media studies, visual culture and the geopolitics of spectatorship. * Tomáš Jirsa, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia * War Faces on Screen brings together diverse methodologies and transnational perspectives to examine how faces mediate war across photography, film, protest art and digital media. Bridging traditional disciplinary divides, it offers a brilliant account of the face as both affective portal and complex visual trope, successfully challenging assumptions about humanization and empathy in representations of violence and conflict. * Suzannah Biernoff, Reader in Visual Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * A rich, urgent and highly original collection. It moves effortlessly between important historical contexts of how the face and war has been represented in visual media to what happens with this crucial, and often problematic, visual trope in times of digital, mediatised warfare and the rise of AI. Essential reading for anyone interested in how war is presented to us. * Piotr Cieplak, Professor of Creative Practice and Visual Cultures, University of Sussex, UK * In a time of crisis, with mass death, famine, and anguish returning our gaze from across the media, this important book is particularly urgent, and poignant. At every page the writers point to what we risk—our humanity—when the singular human face is eclipsed, lost in the carnage. The diverse contributions—scholarly and collaborative writings, text-image exchange, and the precious input of practitioners in current war zones—productively bounce against each other, making for a dynamic, rich collection. War’s physical and psychic inscription on the human body meets questions of technology and politics, of aesthetics and ethics, to heighten our understanding of the facial image in history. * Noa Steimatsky, author of The Face on Film (2017) and Italian Locations (2008) *
War Faces on Screen is not just another book about visualizing war, but an incisive critical anatomy of how faces absorb, perform and resist military violence. From disfigured physiognomies to AI-generated pathos, the volume exposes the affective and ideological charge of both full-frontal visibility and strategic opacity. What emerges is a dense interdisciplinary archive of facial aesthetics and politics — from Hollywood close-ups to drone vision, postcolonial defacement to digital gloss. This conceptually rich volume treats the face not as surface but as interface: a screen of projection, a site of trauma and a battleground of meaning. A major contribution to media studies, visual culture and the geopolitics of spectatorship. * Tomáš Jirsa, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia *
War Faces on Screen is not just another book about visualizing war, but an incisive critical anatomy of how faces absorb, perform and resist military violence. From disfigured physiognomies to AI-generated pathos, the volume exposes the affective and ideological charge of both full-frontal visibility and strategic opacity. What emerges is a dense interdisciplinary archive of facial aesthetics and politics — from Hollywood close-ups to drone vision, postcolonial defacement to digital gloss. This conceptually rich volume treats the face not as surface but as interface: a screen of projection, a site of trauma and a battleground of meaning. A major contribution to media studies, visual culture and the geopolitics of spectatorship. * Tomáš Jirsa, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia * War Faces on Screen brings together diverse methodologies and transnational perspectives to examine how faces mediate war across photography, film, protest art and digital media. Bridging traditional disciplinary divides, it offers a brilliant account of the face as both affective portal and complex visual trope, successfully challenging assumptions about humanization and empathy in representations of violence and conflict. * Suzannah Biernoff, Reader in Visual Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * A rich, urgent and highly original collection. It moves effortlessly between important historical contexts of how the face and war has been represented in visual media to what happens with this crucial, and often problematic, visual trope in times of digital, mediatised warfare and the rise of AI. Essential reading for anyone interested in how war is presented to us. * Piotr Cieplak, Professor of Creative Practice and Visual Cultures, University of Sussex, UK *
Author Information
Katy Parry is Professor of Media and Politics at the University of Leeds, UK. Her books include Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture (2019), co-authored with Giorgia Aiello, and Spaces of War, War of Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-edited with Sarah Maltby, Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle. She is a co-editor of the journal Media, War & Conflict. Mani Sharpe is Lecturer in Film at the University of Leeds, UK. He is author of the monograph Late-colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence (2023). He is generally interested in how films convey the process of military-colonial loss through different formal techniques and themes.
