Digital Fatigue: Imaging War in Recent American Film

Abstract

Abstract The new wired combat in Iraq, alternating in American films between aerial surveillance and camcorder logs or cell-phone video, tends to displace the failed resolutions of plot onto an electronic mediation that not only turns virtual on the spot, but anticipates the post-traumatic flashback as digital playback.

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