Disappearing war: interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world

Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage as case studies, the essays in this book examine the erasure of recent military interventions as depicted in film by US and European filmmakers. Exploring films such as Zero Dark Thiry and American Sniper and documentaries incl...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Hellmich, Christina (HerausgeberIn), Purse, Lisa (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2018]
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Klappentext
Zusammenfassung:Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage as case studies, the essays in this book examine the erasure of recent military interventions as depicted in film by US and European filmmakers. Exploring films such as Zero Dark Thiry and American Sniper and documentaries including Kill List and Dirty Wars, this collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare and examines how érasure' has consequences for US and European understandings of war
Beschreibung:xiii, 202 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781474437523