War in film : : semiotics and conflict related sign constructions on the screen / / Frank Jacob (editor).

• TeilnehmendeR: Jacob, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Marburg, Germany : : Büchner-Verlag,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)

The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the image of heroic actions and violence on the screen. The present volume provides a deeper insight into the forces at play when war films are presented on the big screen and intends to show why and how violent conflicts often have an afterlife as visual media as well.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Visual Semiotics of War (Frank Jacob) -- The Cinematographic Face of Garibaldi. Fascist Propaganda as a Model for the War to Come (Bruno Surace) -- Jihad in Outer Space. The Orientalist Semiotics of Frank Herbert's Dune and the Image of Lawrence of Arabia (Frank Jacob) -- Double Dunkirk (Giuditta Bassano) -- Alain Delon in the Franco-Algerian War: A Barthesian Myth (Nicole Beth Wallenbrock) -- Collateral Damage: Necropolitical Lives in the Mexican Drug War (Jessica Wax-Edwards) -- Traumatic Memory and the Commemoration of War in Video Works of Omer Fast, Steve McQueen, Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer (Cecilia Canziani) -- Contributors.