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Watching War (Hardcover, New)
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Watching War (Hardcover, New)
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What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the
boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become
profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of
military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, "Watching
War" explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before
a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual
phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the
Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern
conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material
forces.
Warfare first became total in the Napoleonic era, when battles
became too large and violent to be observed firsthand and could
only be grasped in the imagination. Thenceforth, fantasies of what
war was or should be proved critical for how wars were fought and
experienced. As war's reach came to be limited only by the
creativity of the mind's eye, its campaigns gave rise to
expectations that could not be fulfilled. As a result, war's modern
audiences have often found themselves bored more than enthralled by
their encounters with combat. Mieszkowski takes an
interdisciplinary approach to this major ethical and political
concern of our time, bringing literary and philosophical texts into
dialogue with artworks, historical documents, and classics of
photojournalism.
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