In/visible war : America's twenty-first-century armed conflicts /
In/visible war : America's twenty-first-century armed conflicts /
Invisible war
edited by Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites.
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- War culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the paradoxical in/visibility of war / Seeing war. How photojournalism has framed the war in Afghanistan / Returning soldiers and the in/visibility of combat trauma / (Re)fashioning PTSD's warrior project / Unremarkable suffering: banality, spectatorship, and war's in/visibilities / Transitio. "War is fun," a photo essay / Laying Bin Laden to rest: a case study of terrorism and the politics of visibility / Not seeing war. Digital war and the public mind: call of duty reloaded, decoded / A cinema of consolation: post-9/11 super invasion fantasy / Differential configurations: in/visibility through the lens of Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Canine rescue, civilian casualties, and the long Gulf War / Theorizing the in/visibility of war. The in/visibility of liberal peace: perpetual peace and enduring freedom / Why war? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the absolute televisual image / War in the twenty-first century: visible, invisible or superpositional? / John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons -- David Campbell -- Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites -- Jeremy G. Gordon -- Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol -- by Nina Berman -- Jody Madeira -- Roger Stahl -- De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Claudia Breger -- Purnima Bose -- Jon Simons -- Diane Rubenstein -- James Der Derian.
"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.
9780813585406
War in mass media.
Mass media and war--United States.
War and society--History--United States--21st century.
Electronic Books.
P96 / .I585 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the paradoxical in/visibility of war / Seeing war. How photojournalism has framed the war in Afghanistan / Returning soldiers and the in/visibility of combat trauma / (Re)fashioning PTSD's warrior project / Unremarkable suffering: banality, spectatorship, and war's in/visibilities / Transitio. "War is fun," a photo essay / Laying Bin Laden to rest: a case study of terrorism and the politics of visibility / Not seeing war. Digital war and the public mind: call of duty reloaded, decoded / A cinema of consolation: post-9/11 super invasion fantasy / Differential configurations: in/visibility through the lens of Kathryn Bigelow's The hurt locker (2008) / Canine rescue, civilian casualties, and the long Gulf War / Theorizing the in/visibility of war. The in/visibility of liberal peace: perpetual peace and enduring freedom / Why war? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the absolute televisual image / War in the twenty-first century: visible, invisible or superpositional? / John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons -- David Campbell -- Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites -- Jeremy G. Gordon -- Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol -- by Nina Berman -- Jody Madeira -- Roger Stahl -- De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Claudia Breger -- Purnima Bose -- Jon Simons -- Diane Rubenstein -- James Der Derian.
"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.
9780813585406
War in mass media.
Mass media and war--United States.
War and society--History--United States--21st century.
Electronic Books.
P96 / .I585 2017