In/visible War

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of War
John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons

Part I: Seeing War
Chapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan
David Campbell    
Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma
Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    
Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior Project
Jeremy G. Gordon    
Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilities
Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol
Transition
“War Is Fun,” a Photo-Essay
Nina Berman    
Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility
Jody Madeira    

Part II: Not Seeing War
Chapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded
Roger Stahl    
Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion Fantasy
De Witt Douglas Kilgore    
Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)
Claudia Breger    
Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War
Purnima Bose

Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War
Chapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom
Jon Simons
Chapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual Image
Diane Rubenstein
Chapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?
James Der Derian    

Notes on Contributors
Photo Credits
Index