Disappearing War : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post 9/11 World / / Christina Hellmich, Lisa Purse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Hellmich, Christina,; Purse, Lisa,
• MitwirkendeR: Auchter, Jessica,; Burgoyne, Robert,; Chaudhuri, Shohini,; Goldstein, Cora Sol,; Gregory, Thomas,; Harris, Janet,; Harvey, James,; Hellmich, Christina,; Piotrowska, Agnieszka,; Purse, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations

Illuminates the extent to which people, images and experiences are erased from cultural representations of contemporary warfareThe 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.ContributorsJessica Auchter, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews Shohini Chaudhuri, University of Essex Cora Sol Goldstein, California State University, Long Beach Thomas Gregory, University of Auckland Janet Harris, award-winning documentary producer/director James Harvey-Davitt, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Greenwich Christina Hellmich, University of Reading Agnieszka Piotrowska, award-winning documentary filmmaker and theorist Lisa Purse, University of Reading

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War -- 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film -- 3. '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident' -- 4. Post-heroic War/ The Body at Risk -- 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders -- 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups -- 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror -- 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty -- 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq -- 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present -- 11. Afterword: Refl ections on Knowing War -- Index