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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller Klappentext This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations. 'Fighting Words and Images is a smart, innovative, and stimulating collection... The editors have pulled off a remarkable feat: an edited volume where many individual chapters shine, yet the sum far outweighs the individual parts.' -- Stephen M. Norris Slavic Review vol 72:02:2013 Zusammenfassung This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature! origins! dynamics! structure! and impact of a wide variety of war representations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustration Acknowledgments Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines ELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLER SECTION ONE: SILENCES Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence JAY WINTERNot Writing about War KATE MCLOUGHLINOccupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin BRAD PRAGER SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES Historiographical Simulations of War STEPHAN JAEGERThe Aestheticization of Suffering on Television LILIE CHOULIARAKISlotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made HELENA GOSCILO SECTION THREE: IDENTITIES Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition JENNIFER C. JAMESExchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia SERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINEIdentity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome JAMES T. CHLUP SECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films ELENA V. BARABANMonsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror DAVID M. LUBIN'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' – Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War SIMON BAKER Contributors Index ...
