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Fighting words and images : representing war across the disciplines / edited by Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: x, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1442641231
  • 9781442641235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.66 23
LOC classification:
  • HM554 .F53 2012
Contents:
Introduction: representing war across the disciplines / Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller -- Silences. Representations of war and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter -- Not writing about war / Kate McLoughlin -- Occupation as the face of war: concealing violence in the diary 'a woman in Berlin' / Brad Prager -- Perspectives. Historiographical simulations of war / Stephan Jaeger -- The aestheticization of suffering on television / Lilie Chouliaraki -- Slotting war narratives into culture's ready-made / Helena Goscilo -- Identities. Blessed are the warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black prophetic tradition / Jennifer C. James -- Exchange of sacrifices: symbolizing an unpopular war in post-Soviet Russia / Serguei Alex. Oushakine -- Identity and the representation of war in Ancient Rome / James T. Chlup -- Aftermaths. The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet films / Elena V. Baraban -- Monsters in America: the First World War and the cultural production of horror / David M. Lubin -- 'Ruins: the ruin of ruins'-photography in the 'Red Zone' and the aftermath of the Great War / Simon Baker.
Summary: "Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigorous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: representing war across the disciplines / Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller -- Silences. Representations of war and the social construction of silence / Jay Winter -- Not writing about war / Kate McLoughlin -- Occupation as the face of war: concealing violence in the diary 'a woman in Berlin' / Brad Prager -- Perspectives. Historiographical simulations of war / Stephan Jaeger -- The aestheticization of suffering on television / Lilie Chouliaraki -- Slotting war narratives into culture's ready-made / Helena Goscilo -- Identities. Blessed are the warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black prophetic tradition / Jennifer C. James -- Exchange of sacrifices: symbolizing an unpopular war in post-Soviet Russia / Serguei Alex. Oushakine -- Identity and the representation of war in Ancient Rome / James T. Chlup -- Aftermaths. The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet films / Elena V. Baraban -- Monsters in America: the First World War and the cultural production of horror / David M. Lubin -- 'Ruins: the ruin of ruins'-photography in the 'Red Zone' and the aftermath of the Great War / Simon Baker.

"Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigorous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations."--Publisher's website.

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