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Informationen zum Autor DORA APEL is an associate professor and the W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University. She is the author of Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing and Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (both Rutgers University Press). Klappentext War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Using carefully chosen case studies, Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images. Simultaneously, she explores the merging of photojournalism and artistic practices, the effects of visual framing, and the construction of both sanctioned and counter-hegemonic narratives in a global contest of images. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Romance of War 1 Technologies of War, Media and Dissent in the Post-9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko 2 Historical Reenactment: Romantic Amnesia or Counter-Memory? Part II: The Body of War 3 Abu Ghraib, Gender, and the Military 4 The Body as Political Corpus Part III: The Landscape of War 5 Controlling the Frame: Photojournalism, Digital Technology, and "Modern Warfare" 6 Israel/Palestine and the Political Imaginary Conclusion: On Human Rights Notes Selected Bibliography Index
