The War Body on Screen

by Karen Randell (Editor), Sean Redmond (Editor)

Overview

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 Screen has 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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441161857
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/22/2012
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Karen Randell is Deputy Dean of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Film and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is published on trauma in film in Art in the Age of Terrorism (2005) and in SCREEN. She is co-editor of Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (2005) with Jacqueline Furby.

Sean Redmond is Associate Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Culture of Blood, and editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader.

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 I

Karen 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