Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation
Lisa Purse and Ute Wölfel
Abstract
This volume provides in-depth analyses of audiovisual representations of war and conflict through the figures of transgression that circulate in these representations. Because their acts of transgression take place in extreme circumstances of stress for a community, figures of transgression such as deserters, mutineers, traitors or conscientious objectors forground the foundations of that community and offer it to scrutiny. These figures and their cultural representations in film, television or museum play key roles in re-thinking cultural, national and community identity by raising questions ... More
This volume provides in-depth analyses of audiovisual representations of war and conflict through the figures of transgression that circulate in these representations. Because their acts of transgression take place in extreme circumstances of stress for a community, figures of transgression such as deserters, mutineers, traitors or conscientious objectors forground the foundations of that community and offer it to scrutiny. These figures and their cultural representations in film, television or museum play key roles in re-thinking cultural, national and community identity by raising questions of victimhood and perpetration, agency, moral responsibility and culpability. In ten chapters which analyse figures of transgression from the contexts of World War 1 and World War 2 to the proliferating conflict zones of the ‘war on terror’, the volume shines a light on the complex function of these transgressors in war representations and maps a history of forms of identity negotiation linked to this key figure.
Keywords:
Transgression,
Identity,
War,
Community,
Film,
Television,
Museum,
Conflict,
Post-conflict
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474446266 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446266.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lisa Purse, editor
University of Reading
Ute Wölfel, editor
University of Reading
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