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War without Bodies: Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

2022 Martin A. Danahay ;ISBN: 9781978819238 ;ISBN: 1978819234 ;ISBN: 197881920X ;ISBN: 9781978819207 ;EISBN: 9781978819238 ;EISBN: 1978819234 ;DOI: 10.36019/9781978819238 ;OCLC: 1291279164 ;LCCallNum: P96.W35 D36 2022

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  • Title:
    War without Bodies: Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
  • Author: Danahay, Martin
  • Subjects: American Studies ; Communication Studies ; History ; History of Science & Technology ; Mass media and war ; Military Studies ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Technology ; War ; War casualties in mass media ; War-Moral and ethical aspects ; World history
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: United States: Rutgers University Press
  • Creation Date: 2022
  • Format: 150
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9781978819238
    ISBN: 1978819234
    ISBN: 197881920X
    ISBN: 9781978819207
    EISBN: 9781978819238
    EISBN: 1978819234
    DOI: 10.36019/9781978819238
    OCLC: 1291279164
    LCCallNum: P96.W35 D36 2022
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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