The Tropes of War [electronic resource] : Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture /
Greenbaum, Andrea.author.
This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction                   ; 1 The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East                                                                       ; 2 War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir                                                                                     ; 3 The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity
4 Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project                                                        Conclusion: Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyperbole                                                                                         ; Afterword                ; Bibliography                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Industries.
Media and Communication.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Crime and Society.
Industries.