Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Paradox of War’s In/visibility 1
4. Part I: Seeing War
5. 1. How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan 27
6. 2. Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma 48
7. 3. (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior Project 69
8. 4. Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilities 89
9. Transition
10. “War Is Fun,” a Photo-Essay 111
11. 5. Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility 125
12. Part II: Not Seeing War
13. 6. Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded 143
14. 7. A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/ 11 Super-Invasion Fantasy 159
15. 8. Differential Configurations: In/visibility Through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008) 172
16. 9. The Canine-Rescue Narrative, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War 193
17. Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War
18. 10. The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom 213
19. 11. Why War? Derrida, Baudrillard, and the Absolute Televisual Image 229
20. 12. War in the Twenty-First Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional? 249
21. Acknowledgments 265
22. Notes on Contributors 267
23. Photo Credits 271
24. Index 273