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Digital Fatigue: Imaging War in Recent American Film
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Digital Fatigue: Imaging War in Recent American Film

Garrett Stewart
Film quarterly, Vol.62(4), pp.45-55
06/01/2009
DOI: 10.1525/fq.2009.62.4.45

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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.
Camcorders Entertainment Images Irony Movies Narrative plot Narratives Soldiers Surveillance Violence

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