ISBN:
9780804785013
,
0804785015
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 244 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mieszkowski, Jan, 1968- Watching war
DDC:
303.6609
Keywords:
Mass media Audiences
;
War in literature
;
War in mass media
;
Mass media Audiences
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Mass media ; Audiences
;
War in literature
;
War in mass media
;
Languages & Literatures
;
Literature - General
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction : watching war -- How to tell a war story -- The witness under fire -- Looking at the dead -- Visions of total war -- Conclusion : old wars, new wars.
Abstract:
What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material forces.〉
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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