Fighting Words and Images : : Representing War Across the Disciplines / / ed. by Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, Adam Muller.

• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Simon,; Baraban, Elena V.,; Chlup, James T.,; Chouliaraki, Lilie,; Goscilo, Helena,; Jaeger, Stephan,; James, Jennifer C.,; Lubin, David M.,; Mcloughlin, Kate,; Muller, Adam,; Oushakine, Serguei Alex.,; Prager, Brad,; Winter, Jay,
• HerausgeberIn: Baraban, Elena V.,; Jaeger, Stephan ,; Muller, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines -- SECTION ONE. Silences -- 1. Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence -- 2. Not Writing about War -- 3. Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin -- SECTION TWO. Perspectives -- 4. Historiographical Simulations of War -- 5. The Aestheticization of Suffering on Television -- 6. Slotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made -- SECTION THREE. Identities -- 7. Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition -- 8. Exchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia -- 9. Identity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome -- SECTION FOUR. Aftermaths -- 10. The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films -- 11. Monsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror -- 12. 'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' - Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War -- Contributors -- Index