Mediating War and Identity

Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474446273 (ISBN)

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Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of figures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a variety of visual media, as well as the narrative, socio-cultural, political and historical contexts in which they emerge.

In state and public discussion about war and conflict, figures of transgression such as deserters, pacifist and emigrants are often marginalised, but they also play a key role in rethinking cultural and national identity in the wake of military violence. Raising questions of agency, responsibility and culpability in relation to the ‘other’, their cultural representation can enable reflection on and renegotiation of values and collective norms after the destabilisation of war.
Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of these transgressive figures in a variety of visual media, as well as the narrative, socio-cultural, political and historical contexts in which they emerge.

Dr Lisa Purse is Associate Professor in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Dr Ute Wolfel is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Reading

List of figures

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Lisa Purse and Ute Wölfel

2. Momentary Rupture? Dawn (1928) and the Transgressive Potential of the Edith Cavell Case

Claudia Sternberg

3. ‘An act of wilful defiance’: Objection, Rebellion, and Protest in the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Galleries

Rebecca Clare Dolgoy

4. Figures of Transgression in Representations of the First World War on British Television

Emma Hanna

5. The End of Transgression: Fritz Bauer as Traitor on the German Screen

Ute Wölfel

6. ‘Just another Kraut’?: The Wehrmacht Traitor as ‘Good German’ in Hollywood’s Decision before Dawn (1951)

Patrick Major

7. Religious pacifism and the Hollywood war film: from Sergeant York (1941) to Hacksaw Ridge (2017)

Guy Westwell

8. Military Masculinity and the Deserting Soldier in Stop-Loss (2008)

Thomas Ærvold Bjerre

9. Activist, mother, filmmaker: competing transgressions in the Syrian war documentary

Lisa Purse

10. Marie Colvin – the war hero and the ‘nasty woman’

Agnieszka Piotrowska

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	30 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781474446273 / 9781474446273
Zustand	Neuware