Re-Imagining the War on Terror
Seeing, Waiting, Travelling
Published on 11. December 2008
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Hardback
VII, 173 pages
978-0-230-20008-1 (ISBN)
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This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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ANDREW HILL is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and The London Institute and held Research Fellowships at the University of Reading and the University of Ulster.
Content
Introduction September 11 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot Acting Out: Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and Since The Bin Laden Tapes 'Shock& Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and Since Endless Waiting Hostage Videos: 'Scenes of Slaughter' Imagining Kabul Phantoms and Jails The Unseen New York: A Return