Watching War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mieszkowski, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Audiences.

War in literature.

War in mass media.

War in literature--Audiences.

Mass media.

Local Subjects:

Mass media--Audiences.

War in literature.

War in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material forces.<

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Watching War; 1. How to Tell a War Story; 2. The Witness Under Fire; 3. Looking at the Dead; 4. Visions of Total War; Conclusion: Old Wars, New Wars; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780804785013

0804785015

OCLC:

804665046