| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War / Christina Hellmich and Lisa Purse -- 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film / Cora Sol Goldstein -- 3. '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident' / Agnieszka Piotrowska -- 4. Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk / Robert Burgoyne -- 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders / Thomas Gregory -- 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups / James Harvey -- 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror / Jessica Auchter -- 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty / Lisa Purse -- 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq / Janet Harris -- 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present / Shohini Chaudhuri -- 11. Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War / Christina Hellmich |
| Summary |
The battles fought in the name of the ́⁰war on terroŕ⁰₉ 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 ́⁰what́⁰₉s missinǵ⁰₉ in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
War films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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War films
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Elfter September
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Kriegsfilm
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Dokumentarfilm
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Krieg Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hellmich, Christina, 1978- editor.
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Purse, Lisa, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474416573 |
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1474416578 |
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