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 is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United
Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including
Images: A Reader.
JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities
in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of
rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His
most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism,
Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.
"In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that
offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the
'global war on terror' on American culture and politics."
*author of The Good War in American Memory*
"Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful
volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why
the paradoxes of war’s invisibility challenge civic
spectatorship."
*co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public
Culture, and Liberal Democracy*
"Provocative."
*H-Net*
"In/Visible War: the Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America
is an amazing read about images of war and also how we really do
not have a clue as to what these men and women in uniform go
through on a day-to-day basis. A picture can make us see, but we
can never know the 'truth.'"
*Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly*
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