Visions of War Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage

Name: Visions of War Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage
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ISBN: 9780312200459

ISBN-10: 0312200455

ISBN-13: 9780312200459

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: David D. Perlmutter

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This work explores and analyses the 13,000 year legacy of pictures of war from various cultures over the centuries, from Stone Age cave paintings and the monumental sculpture of the ancient Near East to the instantaneous images of the Gulf War.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction



Origins


The First War?


The Focus on Big Game


The Fat of the Land


The Maleness of the Big-Game Hunt


Signs of the Hunt


The Communal Ideal


Megafauna "Overkill" and the Genesis of War



Primitive War


The New Face of War


Lethal Societies


Discipline and Dance


Cannae, Past and Present


Leadership and the "Look" of Power


Red Queens Old and New



Commanders


Identifying the War Commander


Visualizing Dominance


Subverting the War Commander


Voluntary Inversions



Comrades


Seeking Commilito


The Warrior Procession


Buddyhood and Buddy Posing


Loyal Brownies and Multicultural Platoons


Fear Itself



Enemies


The Useful Enemy


The Defeated Enemy


The Hated Enemy


The Off-Camera Enemy


The Ambiguous Enemy



Horrors


Horror and Sympathy


Noble Deaths


The "Just" Horrors



Living-Room Wars


Real-Time War


War in Everyday Life


Communal Viewing


Realism


The Effects of War Images



Futures


Seek


Hide


Virtual Warriors


Inreality and Disengagement


Notes


Bibliography


Index