03105nam 2200529 450 991080832180332120230814222133.03-11-057971-53-11-058080-210.1515/9783110580808(CKB)4100000004244565(MiAaPQ)EBC5402739(DE-B1597)490078(OCoLC)1037979554(DE-B1597)9783110580808(Au-PeEL)EBL5402739(CaPaEBR)ebr11566329(EXLCZ)99410000000424456520180627d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCinematic corpographies re-mapping the war film through the body /Eileen RositzkaBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2018]©20181 online resource (210 pages)Cinepoetics ;Volume 33-11-057963-4 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring the Trenches: Corpographies of the First World War -- 3. From Above and From Within: Aerial Views and Corpographic Transformations in the WWII Combat Film -- 4. Dismembering War: Touch and Fragmentation in Anthony Mann's Men in War -- 5. Uncharting Territories: The Vietnam War's Shattering of the Senses -- 6. Zero Dark Thirty: Corpographies of the War on Terror -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Subject index -- Name index -- Film indexWriting on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully evoked in this genre. Contouring war cinema as representing a somatic experience of space, the study applies a term recently developed by Derek Gregory within the theoretical framework of Critical Geography. What he calls "corpography" implies a constant re-mapping of landscape through the soldier's body. These assumptions can be used as a connection between already established theories of cartographic film narration and ideas of (neo)phenomenological film experience, as they also entail the involvement of the spectator's body in sensuously grasping what is staged as a mediated experience of war. While cinematic codes of war have long been oriented almost exclusively to the visual, the notion of corpography can help to reframe the concept of film genre in terms of expressive movement patterns and genre memory, avoiding reverting to the usual taxonomies of generic texts.War filmsWar film.cinematic space.genre theory.poetics of affect.War films.300Rositzka Eileen1629276MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808321803321Cinematic corpographies3966905UNINA