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War without Bodies; Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

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War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
Verfasser: Danahay, Martin
978-1-978819-23-8

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Letzte Änderung: 02.02.2023
Titel:War without Bodies
Untertitel:Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
URL:https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978819238?locatt=mode:legacy
URL Erlt Interna:Verlag
URL Erlt Info:URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Erläuterung :Volltext
Von:Martin Danahay
ISBN:978-1-978819-23-8
Erscheinungsort:New Brunswick, NJ
Verlag:Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr:[2022]
Erscheinungsjahr:© 2022
DOI:10.36019/9781978819238
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (150 Seiten)
Details:10 b&w images
Serie/Reihe:War Culture
Fußnote :Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Abstract:Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a "war without bodies" in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three "video wars" in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war "real" but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars
Sprache:eng
Fußnote :In English
Weitere Schlagwörter :Mass media and war; War casualties in mass media; War; Moral and ethical aspects

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