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Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
Rutgers University Press
Unguarded Border tells the stories of the 50,000 Americans who fled across the border to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, permanently changing perceptions of military service, nation, and citizenship.
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
Edited by Lava Asaad and Fayeza Hasanat
Rutgers University Press
This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
Edited by Lava Asaad and Fayeza Hasanat
Rutgers University Press
This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
German Ways of War
The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
Rutgers University Press
German Ways of War explores the production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects in the war-film genre between the 1910s and 2000s. Beyond the conventional pairing of visuality and violence, war films combine mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks into “affective geographies” that interweave narratively-generated affect, space, and political processes.
War without Bodies
Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
Rutgers University Press
Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.
The American Girl Goes to War
Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
By Liz Clarke
Rutgers University Press
The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women’s changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies.
Cyberwars in the Middle East
Rutgers University Press
Cyberwars in the Middle East argues that offline political tensions in the Middle East that are sometimes sectarian and regional in nature play a vital role in enhancing the cyber operations and hacking attempts that frequently occur. These cyber operations are often used for espionage and/or undermining the authority and credibility of governments, changing their policies, or causing economic damage. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi explores different types of cyber operations and many hacktivists and hacking groups that are active in the region. He looks at how they are connected to globalization and how some are linked to or clash with global hacktivist groups.
American War Stories
Rutgers University Press
American War Stories breaks down the American perception of wars and focuses on how and why we conceptualize the “war” story. It is one of the first studies to ask readers to contemplate what constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalizing of militarism in American culture.
Unmanning
How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare
Rutgers University Press
Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Rather than treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this book examines contemporary targeted killing through a series of failed experiments to develop unmanned flight in the twentieth century. These experiments are tied to histories of global control, cybernetics, racism and colonialism. Drone crashes and failures call attention to the significance of human action in making technopolitics that comes to be opposed to “man” and the paradoxes at their basis.
Intervention Narratives
Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
By Purnima Bose
Rutgers University Press
Intervention Narratives examines contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that justify an imperial foreign policy. Bose demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates on an ideologically diverse terrain by marshaling familiar tropes of entrepreneurship, pet love, and Orientalist stereotypes to enlist support for the war across the political spectrum.
Postfeminist War
Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
Rutgers University Press
By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
Crash Course
From the Good War to the Forever War
Rutgers University Press
In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.
Destructive Sublime
World War II in American Film and Media
Rutgers University Press
In the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically.
Through the Crosshairs
War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
By Roger Stahl
Rutgers University Press
Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of the weaponized gaze—camera footage framed from the perspective of a military drone, a descending smart bomb, or a sniper’s telescopic sights. Tracking these images across a variety of media, including news reports, action movies, and video games, Roger Stahl explores how they have influenced public perceptions.
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini
Rutgers University Press
At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media.
Imperial Affects
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
By Jonna Eagle
Rutgers University Press
Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue.
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war.
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war.
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Rutgers University Press
Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.
War Is Not a Game
The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
By Nan Levinson
Rutgers University Press
On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. War Is Not a Game tells the story of these men and women, and the many others who joined them, harnessing their disillusionment, idealism, and determination to become leaders of a nationwide movement, Iraq Veterans Against the War. Nan Levinson chronicles the accomplishments of these brave veterans, showing that sometimes the most vital battles take place on the home front.
The Other Air Force
U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
Rutgers University Press
As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern media producers who rely on these funds are hardly puppets on an American string, but instead contribute their own political and artistic agendas. The Other Air Force reveals the remarkable creative output that can emerge even from the world’s tensest conflict zones.
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
Rutgers University Press
Looking Back on the Vietnam War embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why. Each essay examines a different facet of the Vietnam War, offering fresh insights on the war’s long-term psychological, social, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. By putting these diverse pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies.
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
Rutgers University Press
Looking Back on the Vietnam War embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why. Each essay examines a different facet of the Vietnam War, offering fresh insights on the war’s long-term psychological, social, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. By putting these diverse pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies.
Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11
Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
Rutgers University Press
Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 challenges the conventional wisdom about horror movies like Hostel and the Saw series. Aaron Kerner argues that, even as these films express anxieties and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror, they are rooted in a much longer tradition of American violence. He also reveals how the “torture porn” aesthetic has gone mainstream, popping up in everything from the television thriller Dexter to the reality show Hell’s Kitchen.
War Is Not a Game
The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
By Nan Levinson
Rutgers University Press
On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. War Is Not a Game tells the story of these men and women, and the many others who joined them, harnessing their disillusionment, idealism, and determination to become leaders of a nationwide movement, Iraq Veterans Against the War. Nan Levinson chronicles the accomplishments of these brave veterans, showing that sometimes the most vital battles take place on the home front.
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