Disappearing War

Addresses erasures and their consequences in contemporary war representation. Case studies include award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper, as well as documentaries such as Kill List and Dirty Wars. Genuinely interdisciplinary, bringing together practitioner and academic perspectives from a range of disciplines.

The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war?The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences?