TY  - BOOK
AU  - LaRocca,David
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The philosophy of war films
SN  - 9780813145129
AV  - PN1995.9.W3 P55 2014
U1  - 791.43/658 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - War films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes index; Introduction: war films and the ineffability of war / David LaRocca -- The aesthetics of war on screen. War and representation / Fredric Jameson -- War pictures: digital surveillance from foreign theater to homeland security front / Garrett Stewart -- Lenses into war: digital verite in Iraq war films / Stacey Peebles -- Beyond panopticism: the biopolitical labor of surveillance and war in contemporary film / Joshua Gooch -- Seeing soldiers, seeing persons: Wittgenstein, film theory, and Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder arms / Burke Hilsabeck -- War as condition of self-formation and self-dissolution. Apocalypse within: the war epic as crisis of self-identity / Garry l. Hagberg -- The violated body: affective experience and somatic intensity in Zero dark thirty / Robert Burgoyne -- "All in war with time": medium as meditation in Sherman's march / Lawrence F. Rhu -- The power of memory and the memory of power: wars and graves in Westerns and Jidaigeki / Inger S. B. Brodey -- The ethical tribulations of war. The ubiquitous absence of the enemy in contemporary Israeli war films / Holger Pötzsch -- General Patton and Private Ryan: the conflicting reality of war and films about war / Andrew Fiala -- The work of art in the age of embedded journalism: fiction versus depiction in Zero dark thirty / K. l. Evans -- War, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular metaphysics on Terrence Malick's The thin red line / Robert Pippin -- War and its fictional recovery on screen: narrative management of death in The big red one and The thin red line / Elisabeth Bronfen -- "Profoundly unreconciled to nature": ecstatic truth and the humanistic sublime in Werner Herzog's war films / David LaRocca
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813145129/
ER  -