Research Catalog

Title

The tropes of war : visual hyperbole and spectacular culture / Andrea Greenbaum.

Author

Greenbaum, Andrea

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

xi, 70 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture examines the remnants of war, the shards that construct the narratives, not only of our current wars (Global War on Terror, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and the war in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom), but previous wars in Europe, and documents how those who return and record their memories - whether through the construction of graphic novel memoirs, documentary films, photojournalism, or by working to heal wounds by making peace, endeavour to excavate these broken pieces. Moreover, the theatre of war has been transferred from physical space to virtual space. Given this interconnectivity of warfare, this stream of information, and the ability to manipulate and control this data (think Pvt. Bradley Manning and NSA secret-leaker Edward Snowden), we recognize that warfare, in the age of new media, has been redefined, and is, in fact, viral. War, as it manifests itself in our culture, as it washes over us and invades our public imagination, becomes an indelible part of our landscape: fashion, movies, graphic novels, television, video games, dolls, and other representative artifacts determine a society's view of warfare, but it can also demarcate paths toward resistance, and, ultimately, peace"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot

Subject

• War and society
• Mass media and war
• Guerre et société
• Médias et guerre
• Mass media and war

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-68) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Joseph D. Harris -- The mother of all tropes : visual hyperbole and the Middle East -- War and the graphic novel : memory as enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir -- The war documentary : Restrepo and the synecdoche of masculinity -- Metonymy of peace : the Comic Book Peace Project -- Conclusion. Living in the age of Babel : war, rhetoric, and the perils of hyberbole -- Afterword / Michael J. Leitner.

ISBN

• 1137550767
• 9781137550767
• 1137550775
• 9781137550774
• 9781137550781 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137550774 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 913924495
• SCSB-10601334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library