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

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...

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