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The war body on screen
- Title
- The war body on screen / edited by Karen Randell and Sean Redmond.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.W3 W354 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In The War Body on Screen, contributors utilize textual analysis, psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory, comparative analysis, narrative theory, discourse analysis, representation and identity as their theoretical guideposts, defining war in hard and soft terms to not only include the literal manifestations of state-sanctioned violence and "terrorist" insurgency. but the discursive and metaphoric forms of war - war as an expression of power and subjugation, and war as an interior and interpersonal mechanism that writes identities and scripts differences on the body."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Setting the Screen / Karen Randell and Sean Redmond -- Pt. 1. The War Body on Screen -- Introduction to Part One / Sean Redmond -- 1. When Planes Fall Out of the Sky: The War Body on Screen / Sean Redmond -- 2. The War Body as Screen of Terror / Renuka Gusain -- 3. A King(dom) for a Stage: The War Body in and as Performance / Matthew Wagner -- 4. Baghdad ER: Subverting the Mythic Gaze upon the Wounded and the Dead / Linda Robertson -- Pt. 2. The Body of the Soldier -- Introduction to Part Two / Karen Randell -- 5. They Came Back: War and Changing National Identity / Adele Parker -- 6. Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability / Sarah Hagelin -- 7. "Welcome to Hell, Private Shakespeare": Trench Horror, Deathwatch, and the Resignification of World War I / Karen Randell -- 8. One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen / H. Louise Davis and Jeffrey Johnson -- Pt. 3. The Body of the Terrorist -- Introduction to Part Three / Sean Redmond -- 9. Constructing the Terrorist Subject: Michael Collins and The Terrorist as Models of Agonistic Pluralism / Jennie Carlsten -- 10. When the Script Runs Out . . . What Happens to the Polarized War Body? Deconstructing Western 24/7 News Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003- / Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay -- 11. Bodies on the Margins? African America and the War on Terror / Paul Williams -- 12. "Damn You For Making Me Do This": Abu Ghraib, 24, Torture, and Television Sadomasochism / Lindsay Coleman -- Pt. 4. The Body of the Hostage -- Introduction to Part Four / Karen Randell -- 13. The Kidnapped Body and Precarious Life: Reflections on the Kenneth Bigley Case / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi -- 14. The Body of the Woman Hostage: Spectacular Bodies and Berlusconi's Media / Rinella Cere -- 15. Hostage Videos in the War on Terror / Andrew Hill -- Afterword / Joanna Bourke.
- ISBN
- 9780826428226 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0826428223 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007030493
- OCLC
- 159822284
- ocn159822284
- SCSB-5397649
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries