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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Bibliography: p. 62-68
Includes index
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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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