In/Visible War

The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8135-8538-3
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: War Culture

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans.
 
Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simons, Jon

Lucaites, John Louis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berman, Nina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of War
John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons

Part I: Seeing War
Chapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan
David Campbell    
Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma
Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    
Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior Project
Jeremy G. Gordon    
Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilities
Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol
Transition
“War Is Fun,” a Photo-Essay
Nina Berman    
Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility
Jody Madeira    

Part II: Not Seeing War
Chapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded
Roger Stahl    
Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion Fantasy
De Witt Douglas Kilgore    
Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)
Claudia Breger    
Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War
Purnima Bose

Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War
Chapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom
Jon Simons
Chapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual Image
Diane Rubenstein
Chapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?
James Der Derian    

Notes on Contributors
Photo Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jon Simons is an associate professor of media and politics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader.
 
John Louis Lucaites is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes, No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.