Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines

SECTION ONE. Silences

1. Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence

2. Not Writing about War

3. Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin

SECTION TWO. Perspectives

4. Historiographical Simulations of War

5. The Aestheticization of Suffering on Television

6. Slotting War Narratives into Culture’s Ready-Made

SECTION THREE. Identities

7. Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition

8. Exchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia

9. Identity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome

SECTION FOUR. Aftermaths

10. The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films

11. Monsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror

12. ‘Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins’ – Photography in the ‘Red Zone’ and the Aftermath of the Great War

Contributors

Index