Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Vectors of Memory; 1 Configuring War: The Changing Face of Armed Conflict; Mediations: Otto Dix and the Great War; Death Descends from the Skies; Empty Spaces; Blurred Faces: Gerhard Richter; 2 Photographing War: Soldiers' Photographs and the Revolution in Violence since 1914; Photographing the New Face of War; 1914: The Pocket Camera Arrives; Cadavers; War Photography after the Great War
The Studium and the Punctum: Frameworks of MeaningCaptions; 3 Filming War; Phases of War Film History; Metonym or Metaphor; Plates-I ; Silent Film; Trajectories; Dignity without Voyeurism; 4 Writing War; Paths of Glory; Contrasts; The Afterlife of Glory; Part II Frameworks of Memory; 5 Memory and the Sacred: Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Memory Regimes; Divergences and Convergences; Martyrdom after the Holocaust; 6 The Geometry of Memory: Horizontality and War Memorials in the Twentieth Century and After; Gazing Downward: From Mantegna to Kollwitz
Horizontality and the Unknown Soldiers of the Great WarThe Second World War and Civilian Deaths; Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Horizontality and European Pacifism; Plates-II; 7 War Beyond Words: Shell Shock, Silence, and Memories of War; Frameworks of Silence; Shell Shock; Case Studies; Silence and Remembrance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book presents a panoramic history of transformations in our global imaginings of war from 1914 to the present
