Overview
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that ""America"" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.
Full Product Details
Author: Jon Simons ,
John Louis Lucaites ,
Nina Berman ,
Nina Berman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780813585383
ISBN 10: 0813585384
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 14 June 2017
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<i>In/Visible War</i>is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics. --John Bodnar author of The Good War in American Memory
Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war's invisibility challenge civic spectatorship. --Robert Hariman Northwestern University
<i>In/Visible War </i>is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics. --John Bodnar author of The Good War in American Memory
Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war's invisibility challenge civic spectatorship. --Robert Hariman co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics. --John Bodnar author of The Good War in American Memory In/Visible Waris a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics. --John Bodnar author of The Good War in American Memory
Author Information
JON SIMONS is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader. JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.
