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War culture and the contest of images / Dora Apel

Author
Apel, Dora, 1952-
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (xii, 273 pages).
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English.
Contents
Book Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Romance of War; Chapter 1. Technologies of War, Media, and Dissent in the Post-9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko; Chapter 2. Historical Reenactment: Romantic Amnesia or Counter-Memory?; Part II. The Body of War; Chapter 3. Abu Ghraib, Gender, and the Military; Chapter 4. The Body as Political Corpus; Part III. The Landscape of War; Chapter 5. Controlling the Frame: Photojournalism, Digital Technology, and "Modern Warfare." and Chapter 6. Israel/Palestine and the Political ImaginaryConclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
Summary
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Using carefully chosen case studies, Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images. Simultaneously, she explores the merging of photojournalism and artistic practices, the effects of visual framing, and the construction of both sanctioned and counter-hegemonic narratives in a global contest of imag.
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0813553962 (electronic bk.)
9780813553962 (electronic bk.)
0813553946
9780813553948
9781283657365
1283657368
6613969869
9786613969866
9780813553955 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0813553954 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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