Fighting Words and Images : Representing War Across the Disciplines / Stephan Jaeger, Elena V. Baraban, Adam Muller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baraban, Elena V.

Jaeger, Stephan.

Muller, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

War in mass media.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigourous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: representing war across the disciplines / Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller

1. Representations of war and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter

2. Not writing about war / Kate McLoughlin

3. Occupation as the face of war: concealing violence in the diary A woman in Berlin / Brad Prager

4. Historiographical simulations of war / Stephan Jaeger

5. The aestheticization of suffering on Television / Lilie Chouliaraki

6. Slotting war narratives into culture's ready-made / Helena Goscilo

7. Blessed are the warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black prophetic tradition / Jennifer C. James

8. Exchange of sacrifices: symbolizing an unpopular war in post-Soviet Russia / Serguei Alex. Oushakine

9. Identity and the representation of war in Ancient Rome / James T. Chlup

10. The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet films / Elena V. Baraban

11. Monsters in America: the First World War and the cultural production of horror / David M. Lubin

12. 'Ruins: the ruin of ruins'

photography in the "Red Zone' and the aftermath of the Great War / Simon Baker.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442662643

1442662646

9781442686731

1442686731

OCLC:

798903007