Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: Setting the Screen

Karen Randell and Sean Redmond

Part One The War Body on Screen

Introduction to Part One

Sean Redmond

1. When Planes Fall Out of the Sky: The War Body on Screen

Sean Redmond

2. The War Body as Screen of Terror

Renuka Gusain

3. A King(dom) for a Stage: The War Body in and as Performance

Matthew Wagner

4. Baghdad ER: Subverting the Mythic Gaze upon the Wounded and the Dead

Linda Robertson

Part Two The Body of the Soldier

Introduction to Part Two

Karen Randell

5. They Came Back: War and Changing National Identity

Adele Parker

6. Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability

Sarah Hagelin

7. "Welcome to Hell, Private Shakespeare": Trench Horror, Deathwatch, and the Resignification of World War I

Karen Randell
8. One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen

H. Louise Davis and Jeffrey Johnson

Part Three The Body of the Terrorist

Introduction to Part Three

Sean Redmond

9. Constructing the Terrorist Subject: Michael Collins and The Terrorist as Models of Agonistic Pluralism

Jennie Carlsten

10. When the Script Runs Out, . . .What Happens to the Polarized War Body? Deconstructing Western 24/7 News Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003

Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay

10. Bodies on the Margins? African America and the War on Terror

Paul Williams

12. "Damn You For Making Me Do This": Abu Ghraib, 24, Torture, and Television Sadomasochism

Lindsay Coleman

Part Four The Body of the Hostage

Introduction to Part Four

Karen Randell

13. The Kidnapped Body and Precarious Life: Reflections on the Kenneth Bigley Case

Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi

14. The Body of the Woman Hostage: Spectacular Bodies and Berlusconi's Media

Rinella Cere

15. Hostage Videos in the War on Terror

Andrew Hill

Afterword

Joanna Bourke

Index