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245	0	4	_aThe philosophy of war films / _cEdited by David LaRocca.
260			_aLexington : _bUniversity Press of Kentucky, _c[2014].
300			_a529 p. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_tIntroduction: war films and the ineffability of war / _rDavid LaRocca -- _gPt. 1. _tThe aesthetics of war on screen. War and representation / _rFredric Jameson -- _tWar pictures: digital surveillance from foreign theater to homeland security front / _rGarrett Stewart -- _tLenses into war: digital vérité in Iraq war films / _rStacey Peebles -- _tBeyond panopticism: the biopolitical labor of surveillance and war in contemporary film / _rJoshua Gooch -- _tSeeing soldiers, seeing persons: Wittgenstein, film theory, and Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder arms / _rBurke Hilsabeck -- _gPt. 2. _tWar as condition of self-formation and self-dissolution. Apocalypse within: the war epic as crisis of self-identity / _rGarry l. Hagberg -- _tThe violated body: affective experience and somatic intensity in Zero dark thirty / _rRobert Burgoyne -- _t"All in war with time": medium as meditation in Sherman's march / _rLawrence F. Rhu -- _tThe power of memory and the memory of power: wars and graves in Westerns and Jidaigeki / _rInger S. B. Brodey -- _tThe ethical tribulations of war. _gPt. 3. _tThe ubiquitous absence of the enemy in contemporary Israeli war films / _rHolger Pötzsch -- _tGeneral Patton and Private Ryan: the conflicting reality of war and films about war / _rAndrew Fiala -- _tThe work of art in the age of embedded journalism: fiction versus depiction in Zero dark thirty / _rK. l. Evans -- _gPt. 4. _tWar, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular metaphysics on Terrence Malick's The thin red line / _rRobert Pippin -- _tWar and its fictional recovery on screen: narrative management of death in The big red one and The thin red line / _rElisabeth Bronfen -- _t"Profoundly unreconciled to nature": ecstatic truth and the humanistic sublime in Werner Herzog's war films / _rDavid LaRocca.
520			_aWars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen. In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic images of battle have on human consciousness, belief, and action. The contributors explore a variety of topics, including the aesthetics of war as portrayed on-screen, the effect war has on personal identity, and the ethical problems presented by war. Drawing upon analyses of iconic and critically acclaimed war films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Rescue Dawn (2006), Restrepo (2010), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), this volume's examination of the genre creates new ways of thinking about the philosophy of war. A fascinating look at the manner in which combat and its aftermath are depicted cinematically, The Philosophy of War Films is a timely and engaging read for any philosopher, filmmaker, reader, or viewer who desires a deeper understanding of war and its representation in popular culture.
650		0	_92126 _aWar films _xHistory and criticism
700	1		_4edt _92127 _aLaRocca, David, _d1975-
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