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3. ‘5,000 feet is the best’: Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio’s ‘Accident’
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Notes on the Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xii
- 1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War 1
- 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film 16
- 3. ‘5,000 feet is the best’: Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio’s ‘Accident’ 34
- 4. Post-heroic War/ The Body at Risk 56
- 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders 73
- 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master’s Facial Close-ups 92
- 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror 111
- 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty 131
- 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq 149
- 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present 170
- 11. Afterword: Refl ections on Knowing War 191
- Index 195
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Notes on the Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xii
- 1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War 1
- 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film 16
- 3. ‘5,000 feet is the best’: Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio’s ‘Accident’ 34
- 4. Post-heroic War/ The Body at Risk 56
- 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders 73
- 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master’s Facial Close-ups 92
- 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror 111
- 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty 131
- 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq 149
- 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present 170
- 11. Afterword: Refl ections on Knowing War 191
- Index 195