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.  
 

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of War
John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons

Part I: Seeing War
Chapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan
David Campbell    
Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma
Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    
Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior Project
Jeremy G. Gordon    
Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilities
Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol
Transition
“War Is Fun,” a Photo-Essay
Nina Berman    
Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility
Jody Madeira    

Part II: Not Seeing War
Chapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded
Roger Stahl    
Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion Fantasy
De Witt Douglas Kilgore    
Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)
Claudia Breger    
Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War
Purnima Bose

Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War
Chapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom
Jon Simons
Chapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual Image
Diane Rubenstein
Chapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?
James Der Derian    

Notes on Contributors
Photo Credits
Index

 

JON SIMONS is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader.
 
JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.