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The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences?

Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided. Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like 'Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper', to documentaries like 'Kill List and Dirty Wars', as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions. Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.

WAR FILMS--HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- Film --- War films --- Motion pictures and war. --- History and criticism. --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism

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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature, Modern --- Collective memory and literature. --- War films --- Collective memory and motion pictures. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Motion pictures and collective memory --- Literature and collective memory --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Collective memory and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war --- War films - History and criticism --- Collective memory and motion pictures --- World War I. --- cultural memory. --- war film. --- war literature.

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This book offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war terror extermination torture and abuse. Author blurb: The book combines art and politics in an original way. It uses art of various kinds (paintings poems novels photographs films) to explore war; it demonstrates how art can do this. It ranges across the wars of the last century from the Great War to the Global War on Terror. It is alive to the idea of moral life even amid depravity and destruction. It is written in a distinctive style which is said to have some affinities with the work of John Berger. It has one foot in scholarship the other in magic arts.

Art and war. --- War and literature. --- War in art. --- War in literature. --- War films --- Arts and morals. --- Arts and ethics --- Ethics and the arts --- Morals and the arts --- Literature and war --- Literature --- War and art --- Art and history --- Art and state --- History and criticism. --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism

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The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910–21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921–40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically engaged cinematic works that also reflect and respond to their own sociohistorical contexts. The author weaves together multilayered analysis of individual films, the history of their production and reception, and broader intellectual developments to illuminate the complex relationship between culture and revolution at the onset of World War II, during the Cold War, and amid the anti-systemic movements agitating Latin America in the 1960s. Ambitious in scope, this book charts an innovative transnational history of not only the visual representation but also the very idea of revolution.

Nationalism in motion pictures. --- War films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Mexico --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- History --- Motion pictures and the revolution. --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism

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Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In The Battle of Algiers, female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. Prisoner of the Mountains shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and political context to these and other films, Matthew Evangelista identifies the key role that economic decline plays in threatening masculine identity and provoking the misogynistic violence that often accompanies nationalist wars.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Polemology --- Film --- Russia --- Yugoslavia --- Algeria --- Canada --- Women in motion pictures. --- War films --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Political violence in motion pictures. --- Men in motion pictures. --- Women --- Violence in women. --- Female violence --- Violent women --- Women in politics --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Political activity. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Movies --- Gender --- Gender roles --- Masculinity --- Media --- Nationalism --- War --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Féminité --- Book