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Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing

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Description for Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing Paperback. Series: Critical American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 39 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.

In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war.

At the book’s center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence—a critical approach to the tensions between spectacle and empathy provoked by gazing at military atrocities and trauma. ... Read more

Kozol’s analysis draws from collections of family photographs, human rights photography, independent film production, photojournalism, and other examples of war’s visual culture, as well as extensive visual evidence of the ways in which U.S. militarism operates to maintain geopolitical dominance—from Fallujah and Abu Ghraib to the most recent drone strikes in Pakistan.

Throughout, Kozol reveals how factors such as gender, race, and sexuality construct competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs—and how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical American Studies
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681303
SKU
V9780816681303
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About Wendy Kozol
Wendy Kozol is professor of comparative American studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of Life’s America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism and has coedited two anthologies (with Wendy S. Hesford): Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the “Real” and Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation.

Reviews for Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing
"In addition to its provocative analysis across visual cultural practices, speaking directly to an area of inquiry that has yet to be represented well at the book level, Distant Wars Visible makes an especially significant contribution at the level of theory. Wendy Kozol offers important new ways to conceptualize what she calls ambivalent witnessing in the spaces between spectacle and ... Read more

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