In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America

Book Overview

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813585376
• ISBN13: 9780813585376
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher