Description: This book explores the Hollywood war film and its ways of staging the sensory experience of war as a corporeal apprehension of space. Analyzing films that foreground tactile, and sonic experience in combat as a key dimension of symbolic meaning in t
Brief description: Eileen Rositzka, Freie Universität Berlin, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Cinepoetics - Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder, Berlin, Germany.
Review Quotes:
"By examining how cinematic representations of war speak so closely to our human condition, Rositzska skilfully depicts how such representations are inflected with intersubjective permutations and assumptions about the material body, gender, and even race, assumptions which can be challenged or interrogated through aesthetic, cinematic forms in order to undercut - even subvert - a predominantly visual discourse in film and media studies."
(Panayiota Chrysochou in: Punctum, 5(1): 271-273, 2019)