Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War
- 2 Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film
- 3 ‘5,000 feet is the best’: Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's ‘Accident’
- 4 Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk
- 5 Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders
- 6 The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups
- 7 Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror
- 8 Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty
- 9 Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq
- 10 Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present
- 11 Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War
- 2 Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film
- 3 ‘5,000 feet is the best’: Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's ‘Accident’
- 4 Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk
- 5 Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders
- 6 The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups
- 7 Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror
- 8 Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty
- 9 Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq
- 10 Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present
- 11 Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War
- Index
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- Disappearing WarInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World, pp. 195 - 202Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017