JON SIMONS is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader.  JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of WarJohn Louis Lucaites and Jon SimonsPart I: Seeing WarChapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in AfghanistanDavid Campbell    Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat TraumaChristopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior ProjectJeremy G. Gordon    Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilitiesRebecca A. Adelman and Wendy KozolTransition“War Is Fun,” a Photo-EssayNina Berman    Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of VisibilityJody Madeira    Part II: Not Seeing WarChapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, DecodedRoger Stahl    Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion FantasyDe Witt Douglas Kilgore    Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)Claudia Breger    Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf WarPurnima BosePart III: Theorizing the In/visibility of WarChapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring FreedomJon SimonsChapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual ImageDiane RubensteinChapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?James Der Derian    Notes on ContributorsPhoto CreditsIndex

"In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics."- John Bodnar (author of The Good War in American Memory) "Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war’s invisibility challenge civic spectatorship." - Robert Hariman (co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy) "Provocative." (H-Net) "In/Visible War: the Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America is an amazing read about images of war and also how we really do not have a clue as to what these men and women in uniform go through on a day-to-day basis. A picture can make us see, but we can never know the 'truth.'"(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)

JON SIMONS is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader.  JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of WarJohn Louis Lucaites and Jon SimonsPart I: Seeing WarChapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in AfghanistanDavid Campbell    Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat TraumaChristopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior ProjectJeremy G. Gordon    Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilitiesRebecca A. Adelman and Wendy KozolTransition“War Is Fun,” a Photo-EssayNina Berman    Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of VisibilityJody Madeira    Part II: Not Seeing WarChapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, DecodedRoger Stahl    Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion FantasyDe Witt Douglas Kilgore    Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)Claudia Breger    Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf WarPurnima BosePart III: Theorizing the In/visibility of WarChapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring FreedomJon SimonsChapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual ImageDiane RubensteinChapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?James Der Derian    Notes on ContributorsPhoto CreditsIndex

"In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics."- John Bodnar (author of The Good War in American Memory) "Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war’s invisibility challenge civic spectatorship." - Robert Hariman (co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy) "Provocative." (H-Net) "In/Visible War: the Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America is an amazing read about images of war and also how we really do not have a clue as to what these men and women in uniform go through on a day-to-day basis. A picture can make us see, but we can never know the 'truth.'"(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)

JON SIMONS is Reader in Media at Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Images: A Reader.  JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES is the associate dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and provost professor of rhetoric in the department of English at Indiana University. His most recent work includes No Caption Needed: Photojournalism, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of WarJohn Louis Lucaites and Jon SimonsPart I: Seeing WarChapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in AfghanistanDavid Campbell    Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat TraumaChristopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites    Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior ProjectJeremy G. Gordon    Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilitiesRebecca A. Adelman and Wendy KozolTransition“War Is Fun,” a Photo-EssayNina Berman    Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of VisibilityJody Madeira    Part II: Not Seeing WarChapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, DecodedRoger Stahl    Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion FantasyDe Witt Douglas Kilgore    Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)Claudia Breger    Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf WarPurnima BosePart III: Theorizing the In/visibility of WarChapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring FreedomJon SimonsChapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual ImageDiane RubensteinChapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional?James Der Derian    Notes on ContributorsPhoto CreditsIndex

"In/Visible War is a timely and stimulating collection that offers a fresh and provocative insight into the impact of the 'global war on terror' on American culture and politics."- John Bodnar (author of The Good War in American Memory) "Can a war be hidden in plain sight? Every day. This thoughtful volume explores how contemporary media are normalizing war, and why the paradoxes of war’s invisibility challenge civic spectatorship." - Robert Hariman (co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy) "Provocative." (H-Net) "In/Visible War: the Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America is an amazing read about images of war and also how we really do not have a clue as to what these men and women in uniform go through on a day-to-day basis. A picture can make us see, but we can never know the 'truth.'"(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)