War Faces on Screen

Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 256 Seiten
EAN 9798765129203
Veröffentlicht 8. Januar 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic
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Beschreibung

An exploration of a range of different visual media to examine how our emotional connections and political responses to the impact of war are mediated through images of the human face.

Portrait

Katy Parry is Professor of Media and Politics at the University of Leeds, UK. Her work focuses on visual politics and activism, images of war, and media representations of (post-)military experience. Her books include Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture (2019), co-authored with Giorgia Aiello, and Spaces of War, War of Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-edited with Sarah Maltby, Ben O'Loughlin and Laura Roselle. She is a co-editor of the journal Media, War & Conflict.
Mani Sharpe is Lecturer in Film at the University of Leeds, UK. He is author of the monograph Late-colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence (2023). He is generally interested in how films convey the process of military-colonial loss through different formal techniques and themes.