Through the Crosshairs : : War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze / / Roger Stahl.
Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper's gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions? Throug...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 18 b-w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. A Strike of the Eye
- 2. Smart Bomb Vision
- 3. Satellite Vision
- 4. Drone Vision
- 5. Sniper Vision
- 6. Resistant Vision
- 7. Afterword: Bodies Inhabited and Disavowed
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index