Cinematic Corpographies : Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body /

Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully evoked in this genre. Contouring war cinema as representing a somatic exper...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rositzka, Eileen (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
coleção:Cinepoetics ; v. 3.
Acesso em linha:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1817712
Sumário:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Measuring the Trenches: Corpographies of the First World War
  • 3. From Above and From Within: Aerial Views and Corpographic Transformations in the WWII Combat Film
  • 4. Dismembering War: Touch and Fragmentation in Anthony Mann's Men in War
  • 5. Uncharting Territories: The Vietnam War's Shattering of the Senses
  • 6. Zero Dark Thirty: Corpographies of the War on Terror
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Subject index
  • Name index
  • Film index