Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World

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Christina Hellmich Lisa Purse

Disappearing War

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World

Christina Hellmich, Lisa Purse

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Edinburgh University Press
30 May 2017

Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres; Other warfare & defence issues

The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences?

Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided. Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper, to documentaries like Kill List and Dirty Wars, as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions. Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.

Edited by: Christina Hellmich, Lisa Purse
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9781474416566
ISBN 10: 147441656X
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 May 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina Hellmich is Associate Professor in IR & Middle East Studies at the University of Reading. Lisa Purse is Associate Professor in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the Universty of Reading.

Reviews for Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World

From mainstream news coverage of conflict to the use of close-ups in The Master this searching edited collection explores the dialectic between the seen and the unseen in the contemporary war film. The contributors tackle the question of whether the myriad changes to war and the representation of war - via embedded reporting, drones, virtual reality and so on - constitute a deep ideological erasure. Their insights are intellectually and ethically illuminating and advance our understanding of the cultural imagination of war in important ways.--Guy Westwell, QMUL