Add to ORKGFor five years, Meredith Davenport has photographed and interviewed men who play live-action games based on contemporary conflicts, such as a recreation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden that took place thousands of miles from the conflict zone on a campground in Northern Virginia. Her images speak about the way that trauma and conflict penetrate a culture sheltered from the horrors of war. Bringing together a series of two dozen photographs with essays discussing and analyzing the influence of the media, particularly photographs and video, on the culture at large and how conflict is "discussed" in the visual realm, Theater of War is a unique look at the influence of contemporary conflict, and their omni-presence in the media on popular c...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
"A group exhibition of diverse works by both Canadian and international artists, War at a Distance e...
Considering three periods in history – World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and t...
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary...
What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on t...
War is a tragic part of our society. War causes death and destruction not only to losers but also to...
Production uses ancient literature to bridge the gap between civilian, soldier experienc
In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less...
This dissertation demonstrates that if done with care, combat art has potential to effect healthy ch...
The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through ...
A number of policymakers have attributed America’s defeat in Vietnam, the first “television war,” to...
Susan Sontag, like the Italian writer Umberto Eco, is among the few present day cultural critics who...
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narrative...
Warfare has been a widely studied subject, dating as far back as the Greek historian Thucydides reco...
This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Dae...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
"A group exhibition of diverse works by both Canadian and international artists, War at a Distance e...
Considering three periods in history – World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and t...
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary...
What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on t...
War is a tragic part of our society. War causes death and destruction not only to losers but also to...
Production uses ancient literature to bridge the gap between civilian, soldier experienc
In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less...
This dissertation demonstrates that if done with care, combat art has potential to effect healthy ch...
The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through ...
A number of policymakers have attributed America’s defeat in Vietnam, the first “television war,” to...
Susan Sontag, like the Italian writer Umberto Eco, is among the few present day cultural critics who...
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narrative...
Warfare has been a widely studied subject, dating as far back as the Greek historian Thucydides reco...
This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Dae...
Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are...
"A group exhibition of diverse works by both Canadian and international artists, War at a Distance e...
Considering three periods in history – World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and t...