Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Cinema And Erasure In The Post-9/11 World - 9781474437523

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 intentionaland 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 DirtyWars, 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 collectionaddresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.

• | Author: Christina Hellmich|Lisa Purse, Lisa Purse
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1474437524
• | ISBN-13: 9781474437523