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Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present : Fields of Action, Fields of Vision.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004353244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representing Wars from 1860 to the PresentDDC classification:
  • 809.93358
LOC classification:
  • PN56.W3 .R477 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Spectacle of War -- 1 Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma's Redacted, Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War -- 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet's Herrumbrosas lanzas -- 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel -- Part 2: At a Distance from War -- 4 The "Comic Opera" of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie's Early Novels -- 5 Margaret Atwood's Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare -- 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War II -- Part 3: Bringing the War Home -- 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War -- 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War -- 9 Revisiting the Congo's Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy's Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga -- 10 "A Boy and His Dog…": The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling -- Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness -- 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photographs -- 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer's Approach to War -- 13 Ōoka Shōhei's Democratization of the Self -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of a wide geographical variety of wars in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press.
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Intro -- Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Spectacle of War -- 1 Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma's Redacted, Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War -- 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet's Herrumbrosas lanzas -- 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel -- Part 2: At a Distance from War -- 4 The "Comic Opera" of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie's Early Novels -- 5 Margaret Atwood's Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare -- 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War II -- Part 3: Bringing the War Home -- 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War -- 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War -- 9 Revisiting the Congo's Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy's Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga -- 10 "A Boy and His Dog…": The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling -- Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness -- 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photographs -- 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer's Approach to War -- 13 Ōoka Shōhei's Democratization of the Self -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of a wide geographical variety of wars in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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