Images of war in the Elizabethan drama -- The war images of the American revolution -- Images of propaganda in/and modern wars -- The Vietnam era: fierce war of images -- War in Irak: images at stake
Summary
Contributors to this volume address the issue of the representation of warfare, in an attempt to assess the veracity or mendacity of war images and their probable impact upon the sequence of events. War images may trigger unfathomable horror or conversely and paradoxically attain sublimity. The margin is sometimes narrow between ethics and aesthetics, let alone the almost irrepressible shift from information to propaganda