TY - BOOK ID - 78371244 TI - In/visible War : The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America AU - Adelman, Rebecca A. AU - Berman, Nina. AU - Bose, Purnima. AU - Breger, Claudia. AU - Campbell, David. AU - Derian, James Der. AU - Gilbert, Christopher J. AU - Gordon, Jeremy G. AU - Kilgore, De Witt Douglas. AU - Kozol, Wendy. AU - Lucaites, John Louis, AU - Lucaites, John Louis. AU - Madeira, Jody. AU - Rubenstein, Diane. AU - Simons, Jon, AU - Simons, Jon. AU - Stahl, Roger. PY - 2017 SN - 0813585392 0813585406 9780813585406 9780813585390 9780813585383 0813585384 9780813585376 0813585376 PB - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - War in mass media. KW - Mass media and war KW - War and society KW - Society and war KW - War KW - Sociology KW - Civilians in war KW - Sociology, Military KW - War and mass media KW - War in mass media KW - Mass media KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - america, american, war, warfare, military presence, war zone, war culture, violence, invisible, war overseas, overseas, global war, war on terror, politics, war politics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78371244 AB - In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network. ER -