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Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments: War Culture

Editat de Cortland Rankin Contribuţii de Renée Laurel Pastel, Cynthia Baron, Natalija Arlauskaite, Lawrence Alexander, Tatiana Konrad, Haley Laurila, Hugo Ljungbäck
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What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering the relationship between war, environment, and media along three lines: imagined geographies of control that prefigure environments as spaces of war; representations of resistance to occupation and ecocidal violence; and elemental reframings of archives and cultural memories of war. This book offers novel perspectives on historical conflict environments while also examining how hypothetical spaces of conflict are imagined. Deploying theoretical perspectives gleaned from film and media studies, ecocriticism, environmental history, urban studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies, among others, authors highlight an international spectrum of 21st-century fiction films and television series, documentaries, and video installations that challenge how we look at war. 
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ISBN-13: 9781978845749
ISBN-10: 197884574X
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: 18 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria War Culture


Notă biografică

CORTLAND RANKIN is an assistant professor of film studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York.
BRADY FLETCHER is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Rochester in New York. 

Cuprins

Introduction: Situational Awareness: Orienting the Study of War, Environment, and Media
CORTLAND RANKIN AND BRADY FLETCHER
Part I Area of Operations: Mapping Militarized Geographies
1 Exposed Façades: Documentary Constructions of Urban Training Centers as Countergeographies of American Military Urbanism
CORTLAND RANKIN
2 Neocolonial Warscapes: The Militarized Jungles of Twenty-First- Century Action-Adventure Cinema
TATIANA KONRAD
3 “Man’s Determined Assault on the Secrets of Space”: Thinking Militarized Astronautics and Extraterrestrial Environmentality with For All Mankind
BRADY FLETCHER
Part II War-Torn: Occupation, Resistance, and Environmental Violence
4 Night Raiders: Indigenous Cinema Illuminates Colonial-Capitalist Warfare
CYNTHIA BARON
5 Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Violence and War in Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis
HALEY LAURILA
6 Pan, Tilt, Zoom: Witnessing the Occupation of East Jerusalem in The Neighbour Before the House
HUGO L JUNGBÄCK
Part III Aftermath: Reframing the Memory of War Through Elemental Media
7 The Dust of War: Rethinking the Global War on Terror’s Iconic Dust
RENÉE PASTEL
8 How to Look at Ice: The Ice Road in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Visual Canon of the Leningrad Siege
NATALIJA ARLAUSKAITĖ
9 Changes of State: Water as Medium and the Fog of War in John Akomfrah’s Mimesis: African Soldier
LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
Conclusion: Special Reconnaissance Operations: How to Look for Warscapes
CORTLAND RANKIN AND BRADY FLETCHER
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index

Descriere

What happens to our idea of a battlefield when we focus on environments of conflict? Warscapes approaches this question from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This volume explores how media can promote an environmental awareness that scholars and media makers can use to rethink and reimagine how we view war.