Posted: September 13th, 2017

War and Visual Culture

War and Visual Culture
War and Visual Culture
Technological warfare is a feature of modernity and one that shapes modern bodies, spaces, and identities. This lecture covers the role of the visual in twentieth and twenty-first century warfare. Exploring the often disputed and unstable territories of conflict, it considers the changing relationship between the modern body and military technologies. The lecture starts with a focus on war propaganda to consider how visual images and material cultures are manipulated to mobilize support for war. While the control of visual communication has become critical to military success, for many far from the battlefield, the visual culture of war continues to be a source of pleasure. Through film, art, advertising, fashion, photography and gaming this lecture considers how war is embodied and visualized through popular representations.

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