The philosophy of war films / edited by David LaRocca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LaRocca, David, 1975- editor.

Series:

Philosophy of popular culture

The philosophy of popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Physical Description:

529 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]

Summary:

The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have depicted the complexities and horrors of war on-screen. In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of new essays by prominent scholars who offer analyses of iconic and critically acclaimed war films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Rescue Dawn (2006), The Hurt Locker (2008), Restrepo (2010), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and examine the genre by creating perceptive and profound ways of thinking about war in popular culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: war films and the ineffability of war / David LaRocca

The aesthetics of war on screen. War and representation / Fredric Jameson

War pictures: digital surveillance from foreign theater to homeland security front / Garrett Stewart

Lenses into war: digital vérité in Iraq war films / Stacey Peebles

Beyond panopticism: the biopolitical labor of surveillance and war in contemporary film / Joshua Gooch

Seeing soldiers, seeing persons: Wittgenstein, film theory, and Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder arms / Burke Hilsabeck

War as condition of self-formation and self-dissolution. Apocalypse within: the war epic as crisis of self-identity / Garry l. Hagberg

The violated body: affective experience and somatic intensity in Zero dark thirty / Robert Burgoyne

"All in war with time": medium as meditation in Sherman's march / Lawrence F. Rhu

The power of memory and the memory of power: wars and graves in Westerns and Jidaigeki / Inger S.B. Brodey

The ethical tribulations of war. The ubiquitous absence of the enemy in contemporary Israeli war films / Holger Pötzsch

General Patton and Private Ryan: the conflicting reality of war and films about war / Andrew Fiala

The work of art in the age of embedded journalism: fiction versus depiction in Zero dark thirty / K. l. Evans

War, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular metaphysics on Terrence Malick's The thin red line / Robert Pippin

War and its fictional recovery on screen: narrative management of death in The big red one and The thin red line / Elisabeth Bronfen

"Profoundly unreconciled to nature": ecstatic truth and the humanistic sublime in Werner Herzog's war films / David LaRocca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813141688

0813141680

OCLC:

876686170