LEADER 04810nam 2200553 450 001 9910795550303321 005 20230415172630.0 010 $a1-9788-1923-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978819238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6837546 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6837546 035 $a(CKB)20343325900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1291279164 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102599 035 $a(DE-B1597)637839 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978819238 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920343325900041 100 $a20230415d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWar Without Bodies $eFraming Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War /$fMartin Danahay 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (155 pages) 225 1 $aWar Culture 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Danahay, Martin War Without Bodies New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2022 9781978819207 327 $aIntroduction: Two photographs -- Sacrificial bodies : Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade -- The soldier's body and sites of mourning -- War games -- Trauma and the soldier's body -- Sophie Ristelhueber : landscape as body -- Conclusion: Future war without bodies. 330 $a"Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a "war without bodies" in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three "video wars" in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war "real" but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWar culture. 606 $aWar$xcasualties in mass media 606 $aMass media and war 606 $aWar$xMoral and ethical aspects 610 $aderealization, warfare, civilian, civilian bodies, popular media, violence, violence in media, American media, United States media, soldiers, civilian casualties, corpse, war, dead bodies, The Dead Kennedys, Crimean War, Roger Fenton, army, photography, war photography, British army, Gulf war, war culture, organized violence, media coverage, realism, justified war, Iraq war, frames of war, human cost, images of war, anti-war, antiwar, media analysis, media studies, video games, violent video games, subliminal messages, peace, Charge of the Light Brigade, documenting war, mourning, war trauma, war games, fantasy wars, Dungeons and Dragons, virtual wars, virtual reality, PTSD, war politics, Sophie Ristelhueber, drone wars, gun violence, gory graphics, desensitization, war narrative, war prevention, media management, media censorship, war video games, war movies, war films, action movies, combat movies, combat video games, military movies, war drama, art of war, war management, management of violence, war videos. 615 0$aWar$xcasualties in mass media. 615 0$aMass media and war. 615 0$aWar$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a305.90695 700 $aDanahay$b Martin A.$01465165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795550303321 996 $aWar Without Bodies$93675027 997 $aUNINA