The tropes of war : visual hyperbole and spectacular culture
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The tropes of war : visual hyperbole and spectacular culture
(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- : Hardback
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 62-68
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Joseph D. Harris 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 Hyberbole' Afterword, by Michael J. Leitner
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