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    In/visible War
    The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

    Jon Simons (Edited by), John Louis Lucaites (Edited by), Nina Berman (By (photographer)), Nina Berman (Contributions by), David Campbell (Contributions by), Christopher J. Gilbert (Contributions by), Jeremy G. Gordon (Contributions by), Rebecca A. Adelman (Contributions by), Wendy Kozol (Contributions by), Jon Simons (Contributions by), Jody Madeira (Contributions by), Roger Stahl (Contributions by), De Witt Douglas Kilgore (Contributions by), Claudia Breger (Contributions by), Purnima Bose (Contributions by), Diane Rubenstein (Contributions by), James Der Derian (Contributions by), John Louis Lucaites (Contributions by)

    9780813585383

    Hardback, published 14 June 2017

    286 pages, 19 black-and-white and 12 color photographs
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg

    "In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics."
     

     
    - John Bodnar (author of The Good War in American Memory)
    "Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war’s invisibility challenge civic spectatorship."
    - Robert Hariman (co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy)
    "Provocative."
    (H-Net)

    "In/Visible War: the Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America is an amazing read about images of war and also how we really do not have a clue as to what these men and women in uniform go through on a day-to-day basis. A picture can make us see, but we can never know the 'truth.'"

    (Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)

    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.  
     

    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

     
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