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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Vectors of Memory -- 1 Configuring War: The Changing Face of Armed Conflict -- Mediations: Otto Dix and the Great War -- Death Descends from the Skies -- Empty Spaces -- Blurred Faces: Gerhard Richter -- 2 Photographing War: Soldiers' Photographs and the Revolution in Violence since 1914 -- Photographing the New Face of War -- 1914: The Pocket Camera Arrives -- Cadavers -- War Photography after the Great War -- The Studium and the Punctum: Frameworks of Meaning -- Captions -- 3 Filming War -- Phases of War Film History -- Metonym or Metaphor -- Plates-I -- Silent Film -- Trajectories -- Dignity without Voyeurism -- 4 Writing War -- Paths of Glory -- Contrasts -- The Afterlife of Glory -- Part II Frameworks of Memory -- 5 Memory and the Sacred: Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Memory Regimes -- Divergences and Convergences -- Martyrdom after the Holocaust -- 6 The Geometry of Memory: Horizontality and War Memorials in the Twentieth Century and After -- Gazing Downward: From Mantegna to Kollwitz -- Horizontality and the Unknown Soldiers of the Great War -- The Second World War and Civilian Deaths -- Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Horizontality and European Pacifism -- Plates-II -- 7 War Beyond Words: Shell Shock, Silence, and Memories of War -- Frameworks of Silence -- Shell Shock -- Case Studies -- Silence and Remembrance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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225 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
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9781108295284 (e-book) |
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