Re-Imagining the War on Terror: Seeing, Waiting, Travelling

by A. Hill

Overview

This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230200081
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/11/2008
Series:	New Security Challenges
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	173
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

ANDREW HILL is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and The London Institute and held Research Fellowships at the University of Reading and the University of Ulster.

Table of Contents

Introduction September 11 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot Acting Out: Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and Since The Bin Laden Tapes 'Shock& Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and Since Endless Waiting Hostage Videos: 'Scenes of Slaughter' Imagining Kabul Phantoms and Jails The Unseen New York: A Return