
Disappearing War
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The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences?
Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided. Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper, to documentaries like Kill List and Dirty Wars, as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions. Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1. Early Lessing, Commitment,the World
- 2. 'I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay': Lessing and Youth Culture 1956-1962
- 3. Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
- 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition
- 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook
- 6. From The Grass is Singing toThe Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis
- 7. 'A funny thing laughter, what's it for?': Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction
- 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
- 9. Lessing and Time Travel
- 10. Lessing's Interruptions
- 11. Lessing's Witness Literature
- 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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