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 including Kill List and Dirty Wars, this collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare and examines how érasure' has consequesnces for US and European understandings of war.

• | Author: Christina Hellmich|Lisa Purse, Christina Hellmich
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147441656X
• | ISBN-13: 9781474416566