{"product_id":"war-without-bodies-framing-death-from-the-crimean-to-the-iraq-war-9781978819191","title":"War without Bodies: Framing Death from the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorically 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 \u003ci\u003eWar Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eWar Without Bodies \u003c\/i\u003etraces 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWar Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"War Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation.  Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In\/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America *\u003cbr\u003e\"Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. \u003ci\u003eWar Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality.\" -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War *\u003cbr\u003e\"You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body.\" -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"War Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation.  Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In\/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America *\u003cbr\u003e\"Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. \u003ci\u003eWar Without Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality.\" -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War *\u003cbr\u003e\"You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body.\" -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Two Photographs\u003cbr\u003e Framing Death\u003cbr\u003e War Culture\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade\u003cbr\u003e Documenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s Photographs\u003cbr\u003e Reliving the Charge of the Light Brigade\u003cbr\u003e The Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of Mourning\u003cbr\u003e Memorializing the Dead\u003cbr\u003e The Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological Trauma\u003cbr\u003e Diagnosing Trauma\u003cbr\u003e 3. War Games\u003cbr\u003e Fantasy Wars: \u003ci\u003eDungeons and Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virtual Warriors and Armchair Generals\u003cbr\u003e The Pleasures of Conquest\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trauma and the Soldier’s Body\u003cbr\u003e The Soldier’s Gendered Body\u003cbr\u003e PTSD and Moral Injury\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of PTSD\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFait\u003c\/i\u003e and Drone Vision\u003cbr\u003e Landscape and the Soldier’s Body\u003cbr\u003e Reinserting the Civilian Body into the Frame\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Future War without Bodies","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415246446935,"sku":"9781978819191","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/war-without-bodies-framing-death-from-the-crimean-to-the-iraq-war-9781978819191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}