Special Issue
Contemporary soldiering, self-representation and popular culture
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12904682 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sarah Maltby (University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia), Keith Parry (0000-0003-3654-6489, University of Leeds) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 9 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-8 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Media War & Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1750-6352 • E-ISSN: 1750-6360 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750635216642080 |
| OpenAlex | W2345217250 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 7 |
The ideas behind this Special Issue initially came together as a panel at the 2014 International Communication Association annual conference in Seattle, USA. Originally comprised of papers from Maria Hellman and Charlotte Wagnsson, Lisa Silvestri, Katy Parry and Nancy Thumim, along with a film directed by Sarah Maltby, our panel’s focus was very much on the lived experiences of military personnel as articulated and understood across a diverse range of media forms and genres. We then extended our invitation for this issue to bring together further scholarship which embodies a shared interest in the performance of soldiering, the vernacular and genre in an attempt to scrutinize and uncover the political and affective work of such forms in varied historical and geographic contexts. Such work remains crucial to investigating how war and violence are legitimized and remembered. In our compiling of the selected papers, we intentionally focus on a range of media forms to avoid a one-medium bias. Decidedly then, we have included genres other than journalism (cinema, social media, photography, memoirs, exhibitions, NGO materials), all with an emphasis on soldier-produced texts or on media forms that claim to represent fighting forces and veterans. This is not to suggest a diminished role for journalism but rather to emphasize that ‘media’ should not routinely refer to ‘news media’. In so doing, we aim to draw attention to the role of popular culture and new intermediaries in representing, mediating and embodying the soldiering experience so as to offer fresh insights
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Exhibition · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Representation (politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Vernacular · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Military History and Strategy
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |