War Faces on Screen - Photography, Film, and the Politics of Representation

An exploration of a range of different visual media to examine how our emotional connections and political responses to the impact of war are mediated through images of the human face.

About the author

Katy Parry is Professor of Media and Politics at the University of Leeds, UK. Her work focuses on visual politics and activism, images of war, and media representations of (post-)military experience. Her books include Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture (2019), co-authored with Giorgia Aiello, and Spaces of War, War of Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-edited with Sarah Maltby, Ben O'Loughlin and Laura Roselle. She is a co-editor of the journal Media, War & Conflict.

Mani Sharpe is Lecturer in Film at the University of Leeds, UK. He is author of the monograph Late-colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence (2023). He is generally interested in how films convey the process of military-colonial loss through different formal techniques and themes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katy Parry (Editor), Mani Sharpe (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9798765129203
• ISBN: 979-8-7651-2920-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: 52 bw illus
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Photography & photographs, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Film Theory & Criticism, Photography and photographs, Armed Conflict, Film history, theory or criticism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General