Fighting Words and Images
Representing War Across the Disciplines
Published on 28. April 2012
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4426-4123-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Fighting Words and Images is a smart, innovative, and stimulating collection... The editors have pulled off a remarkable feat: an edited volume where many individual chapters shine, yet the sum far outweighs the individual parts.'- Stephen M. Norris (Slavic Review vol 72:02:2013)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
29 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-4123-5 (9781442641235)
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Elena V. Baraban | Stephan Jaeger | Adam Muller
Fighting Words and Images
Representing War Across the Disciplines
E-Book
03/2012
1st Edition
University of Toronto Press
€75.95
Available for download
Persons
Elena V. Baraban is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Stephan Jaeger is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Adam Muller is an associate professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba.
Stephan Jaeger is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Adam Muller is an associate professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba.
Content
List of Illustration
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines
ELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLER
SECTION ONE: SILENCES
Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence
JAY WINTER
Not Writing about War
KATE MCLOUGHLIN
Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin
BRAD PRAGER
SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES
Historiographical Simulations of War
STEPHAN JAEGER
The Aestheticization of Suffering on Television
LILIE CHOULIARAKI
Slotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made
HELENA GOSCILO
SECTION THREE: IDENTITIES
Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition
JENNIFER C. JAMES
Exchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia
SERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINE
Identity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome
JAMES T. CHLUP
SECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS
The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films
ELENA V. BARABAN
Monsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror
DAVID M. LUBIN
'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' - Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War
SIMON BAKER
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines
ELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLER
SECTION ONE: SILENCES
Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence
JAY WINTER
Not Writing about War
KATE MCLOUGHLIN
Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin
BRAD PRAGER
SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES
Historiographical Simulations of War
STEPHAN JAEGER
The Aestheticization of Suffering on Television
LILIE CHOULIARAKI
Slotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made
HELENA GOSCILO
SECTION THREE: IDENTITIES
Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition
JENNIFER C. JAMES
Exchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia
SERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINE
Identity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome
JAMES T. CHLUP
SECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS
The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films
ELENA V. BARABAN
Monsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror
DAVID M. LUBIN
'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' - Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War
SIMON BAKER
Contributors
Index