In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at 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
Jon Simons and John Louis Lucaites