The War Body on Screen [Paperback]

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'.

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