Disappearing war : interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world / edited by Christina Hellmich and Lisa Purse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hellmich, Christina, 1978- editor.

Purse, Lisa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Motion pictures and war.

Physical Description:

xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage as case studies, the essays in this book examine the erasure of recent military interventions as depicted in film by US and European filmmakers. Exploring films such as Zero Dark Thiry and American Sniper and documentaries including Kill List and Dirty Wars, this collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare and examines how érasure' has consequesnces for US and European understandings of war.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War / Christina Hellmich Hellmich, Christina, Lisa Purse Purse, Lisa 1

2 Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film / Cora Sol Goldstein Goldstein, Cora Sol 16

3 '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident' / Agnieszka Piotrowska Piotrowska, Agnieszka 34

4 Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk / Robert Burgoyne Burgoyne, Robert 56

5 Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the May wand District Murders / Thomas Gregory Gregory, Thomas 73

6 The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups / James Harvey Harvey, James 92

7 Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror / Jessica Auchter Auchter, Jessica 111

8 Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty / Lisa Purse Purse, Lisa 131

9 Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq / Janet Harris Harris, Janet 145

10 Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present / Shohim Chaudhuri Chaudhuri, Shohim 170

11 Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War / Christina Hellmich Hellmich, Christina 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474416566

147441656X

OCLC:

955313102