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War without Bodies - Martin Danahay

War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

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Buch | Softcover
154 Seiten
2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1919-1 (ISBN)
CHF 38,35 inkl. MwSt
Traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army, to the first of three ‘video wars’ in the Gulf region in 1990 to 1991, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organised violence acceptable to a wider public.
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.

 

MARTIN A. DANAHAY is a professor of English at Brock University in Canada. He is the author of Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity and A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Britain.  

Introduction: Two Photographs

Framing Death

War Culture

1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade

Documenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s Photographs

Reliving the Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice

2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of Mourning

Memorializing the Dead

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological Trauma

Diagnosing Trauma

3. War Games

Fantasy Wars: Dungeons and Dragons

Virtual Warriors and Armchair Generals

The Pleasures of Conquest

4. Trauma and the Soldier’s Body

The Soldier’s Gendered Body

PTSD and Moral Injury

The Politics of PTSD

5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as Body

Fait and Drone Vision

Landscape and the Soldier’s Body

Reinserting the Civilian Body into the Frame

Conclusion: Future War without Bodies

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 b&w images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 27 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Technik
ISBN-10 1-9788-1919-6 / 1978819196
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-1919-1 / 9781978819191
Zustand Neuware
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