Chapters in this book

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