In/visible war : the culture of war in twenty-first-century America / edited by Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lucaites, John Louis, editor.

Simons, Jon, 1961- editor.

Series:

War culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War in mass media.

Mass media and war--United States.

Mass media and war.

War and society--United States--History--21st century.

War and society.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Invisible war

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first-century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of 21st century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network. This book asks: What is the significance of this simultaneous in/visibility of war? How do militaristic spectacles serve to hide war's costs while simultaneously representing war? How does the in/visibility of war articulate with other structures, processes and practices of social power? Does critical dissent from war depend on other ways of seeing war and rendering it visible?"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the paradoxical in/visibility of war / John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons

Seeing war. How photojournalism has framed the war in Afghanistan / David Campbell

Returning soldiers and the in/visibility of combat trauma / Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites

(Re)fashioning PTSD's warrior project / Jeremy G. Gordon

Unremarkable suffering: banality, spectatorship, and war's in/visibilities / Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol

Transitio. "War is fun," a photo essay / by Nina Berman

Laying Bin Laden to rest: a case study of terrorism and the politics of visibility / Jody Madeira

Not seeing war. Digital war and the public mind: call of duty reloaded, decoded / Roger Stahl

A cinema of consolation: post-9/11 super invasion fantasy / De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Differential configurations: in/visibility through the lens of Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Claudia Breger

Canine rescue, civilian casualties, and the long Gulf War / Purnima Bose

Theorizing the in/visibility of war. The in/visibility of liberal peace: perpetual peace and enduring freedom / Jon Simons

Why war? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the absolute televisual image / Diane Rubenstein

War in the twenty-first century: visible, invisible or superpositional? / James Der Derian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813585383

0813585384

9780813585376

0813585376

OCLC:

959260227