The War Body on Screen

by Randell, Karen; Redmond, Sean

• ISBN13: 9781441161857
• ISBN10: 1441161856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The discussion of the war body on screen is best served by drawing upon multiple and diverging view points, differing academic backgrounds and methodological approaches. A multi-disciplinary approach is essential in order to capture and interpret the complexity of the war body on screen and its many manifestations. In this collection, contributors utilize textual analysis, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, comparative analysis, narrative theory, discourse analysis, representation and identity as their theoretical footprints. Analysis of the impact of new media and information technologies on the construction and transmission of war bodies is also been addressed.The War Body on Screenhas a highly original structure, with themed sections organized around 'the body of the soldier'; 'the body of the terrorist'; and 'the body of the hostage'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: Setting the Screen

Karen Randell and Sean Redmond

Part One The War Body on Screen

Introduction to Part One

Sean Redmond

1. When Planes Fall Out of the Sky: The War Body on Screen

Sean Redmond

2. The War Body as Screen of Terror

Renuka Gusain

3. A King(dom) for a Stage: The War Body in and as Performance

Matthew Wagner

4. Baghdad ER: Subverting the Mythic Gaze upon the Wounded and the Dead

Linda Robertson

Part Two The Body of the Soldier

Introduction to Part Two

Karen Randell

5. They Came Back: War and Changing National Identity

Adele Parker

6. Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability

Sarah Hagelin

7. "Welcome to Hell, Private Shakespeare": Trench Horror, Deathwatch, and the Resignification of World War IKaren Randell

8. One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen

H. Louise Davis and Jeffrey Johnson

Part Three The Body of the Terrorist

Introduction to Part Three

Sean Redmond

9. Constructing the Terrorist Subject: Michael Collins and The Terrorist as Models of Agonistic Pluralism

Jennie Carlsten

10. When the Script Runs Out, . . .What Happens to the Polarized War Body? Deconstructing Western 24/7 News Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003

Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay

10. Bodies on the Margins? African America and the War on Terror

Paul Williams

12. "Damn You For Making Me Do This": Abu Ghraib, 24, Torture, and Television Sadomasochism

Lindsay Coleman

Part Four The Body of the Hostage

Introduction to Part Four

Karen Randell

13. The Kidnapped Body and Precarious Life: Reflections on the Kenneth Bigley Case

Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi

14. The Body of the Woman Hostage: Spectacular Bodies and Berlusconi's Media

Rinella Cere

15. Hostage Videos in the War on Terror

Andrew Hill

Afterword

Joanna Bourke

Index