The War Body on Screen
Published on 22. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4411-6185-7 (ISBN)
Description
The discussion of the war body on screen is best served by drawing upon multiple and diverging view points, differing academic backgrounds and methodological approaches. A multi-disciplinary approach is essential in order to capture and interpret the complexity of the war body on screen and its many manifestations.In this collection, contributors utilize textual analysis, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, comparative analysis, narrative theory, discourse analysis, representation and identity as their theoretical footprints. Analysis of the impact of new media and information technologies on the construction and transmission of war bodies is also been addressed.
The War Body on Screen has a highly original structure, with themed sections organized around 'the body of the soldier'; 'the body of the terrorist'; and 'the body of the hostage'.
The War Body on Screen has a highly original structure, with themed sections organized around 'the body of the soldier'; 'the body of the terrorist'; and 'the body of the hostage'.
Reviews / Votes
The War Body on Screen is a breathtaking exploration of terror and pain in the modern world. Its passionate engagement with the big issues of our time and its intellectual rigour make it indispensable reading. - Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck CollegeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-6185-7 (9781441161857)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Karen Randell is Deputy Dean of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Film and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is published on trauma in film in Art in the Age of Terrorism (2005) and in SCREEN. She is co-editor of Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (2005) with Jacqueline Furby.
Sean Redmond is Associate Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Culture of Blood, and editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader.
Sean Redmond is Associate Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Culture of Blood, and editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader.
Content
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Setting the Screen
Karen Randell and Sean Redmond
Part One The War Body on Screen
Introduction to Part One
Sean Redmond
1. When Planes Fall Out of the Sky: The War Body on Screen
Sean Redmond
2. The War Body as Screen of Terror
Renuka Gusain
3. A King(dom) for a Stage: The War Body in and as Performance
Matthew Wagner
4. Baghdad ER: Subverting the Mythic Gaze upon the Wounded and the Dead
Linda Robertson
Part Two The Body of the Soldier
Introduction to Part Two
Karen Randell
5. They Came Back: War and Changing National Identity
Adele Parker
6. Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability
Sarah Hagelin
7. "Welcome to Hell, Private Shakespeare": Trench Horror, Deathwatch, and the Resignification of World War I
Karen Randell
8. One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen
H. Louise Davis and Jeffrey Johnson
Part Three The Body of the Terrorist
Introduction to Part Three
Sean Redmond
9. Constructing the Terrorist Subject: Michael Collins and The Terrorist as Models of Agonistic Pluralism
Jennie Carlsten
10. When the Script Runs Out, . . .What Happens to the Polarized War Body? Deconstructing Western 24/7 News Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay
10. Bodies on the Margins? African America and the War on Terror
Paul Williams
12. "Damn You For Making Me Do This": Abu Ghraib, 24, Torture, and Television Sadomasochism
Lindsay Coleman
Part Four The Body of the Hostage
Introduction to Part Four
Karen Randell
13. The Kidnapped Body and Precarious Life: Reflections on the Kenneth Bigley Case
Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
14. The Body of the Woman Hostage: Spectacular Bodies and Berlusconi's Media
Rinella Cere
15. Hostage Videos in the War on Terror
Andrew Hill
Afterword
Joanna Bourke
Index
Contributors
Introduction: Setting the Screen
Karen Randell and Sean Redmond
Part One The War Body on Screen
Introduction to Part One
Sean Redmond
1. When Planes Fall Out of the Sky: The War Body on Screen
Sean Redmond
2. The War Body as Screen of Terror
Renuka Gusain
3. A King(dom) for a Stage: The War Body in and as Performance
Matthew Wagner
4. Baghdad ER: Subverting the Mythic Gaze upon the Wounded and the Dead
Linda Robertson
Part Two The Body of the Soldier
Introduction to Part Two
Karen Randell
5. They Came Back: War and Changing National Identity
Adele Parker
6. Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability
Sarah Hagelin
7. "Welcome to Hell, Private Shakespeare": Trench Horror, Deathwatch, and the Resignification of World War I
Karen Randell
8. One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen
H. Louise Davis and Jeffrey Johnson
Part Three The Body of the Terrorist
Introduction to Part Three
Sean Redmond
9. Constructing the Terrorist Subject: Michael Collins and The Terrorist as Models of Agonistic Pluralism
Jennie Carlsten
10. When the Script Runs Out, . . .What Happens to the Polarized War Body? Deconstructing Western 24/7 News Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay
10. Bodies on the Margins? African America and the War on Terror
Paul Williams
12. "Damn You For Making Me Do This": Abu Ghraib, 24, Torture, and Television Sadomasochism
Lindsay Coleman
Part Four The Body of the Hostage
Introduction to Part Four
Karen Randell
13. The Kidnapped Body and Precarious Life: Reflections on the Kenneth Bigley Case
Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
14. The Body of the Woman Hostage: Spectacular Bodies and Berlusconi's Media
Rinella Cere
15. Hostage Videos in the War on Terror
Andrew Hill
Afterword
Joanna Bourke
Index