"The War Body on Screen is a breathtaking exploration of terror and pain in the modern world. Its passionate engagement with the big issues of our time and its intellectual rigour make it indispensable reading." Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College The bodies of the dead or the soon to be dead litter the media landscape and they frame the representation of war, terror and conflict in the modern age. What are the meanings carried and conveyed by these war bodies on screen? The discussion of the war body on screen is best served by drawing upon multiple and diverging viewpoints, differing academic backgrounds and methodological approaches. A multi-disciplinary approach is essential in order to capture and interpret the complexity of the war body on screen and its many manifestations. This book cuts across media, geographical, and historical boundaries to account for the ideological and political shifts in the construction of terror and warfare, and the specific inflections of media forms and national contexts. Its contributors utilize textual analysis, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, comparative analysis, narrative theory, discourse analysis, representation and identity as their theoretical footprints, as well as analyzing the impact of new media and information technologies on the construction and transmission of war bodies. The War Body on Screen has a highly original structure, with themed sections organized around 'the body of the soldier'; 'the body of the terrorist'; and 'the body of the hostage'.

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