Watching war / Jan Mieszkowski.

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Mieszkowski, Jan, 1968-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804785013
0804785015
0804782393
9780804782395

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Watching war.DDC classification:

303.6/609 23

LOC classification:

PN56.W3 M54 2012eb

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Contents:

Introduction : watching war -- How to tell a war story -- The witness under fire -- Looking at the dead -- Visions of total war -- Conclusion : old wars, new wars.

Summary: What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material forces.>

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : watching war -- How to tell a war story -- The witness under fire -- Looking at the dead -- Visions of total war -- Conclusion : old wars, new wars.

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material forces.>

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