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Clarissa Ceglio
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War and Moving Pictures
It is hard to watch videos taken by real-life soldiers using “helmet cams,” small cameras strapped to the side of Kevlar helmets. The landscape lurches up and down in the camera’s frame, inducing a kind of sea-sickness. Violence erupts in the periphery—a land mine explodes, a soldier screams—and the camera lens swooshes to the side, … Read more
Toy Soldiers Revisted
Surely, I’m not the only female who played with toy soldiers as a child? Steeped in the 1960s TV lore of Combat!, The Rat Patrol and 12 O’Clock High, which we saw as reruns in the 1970s, my brother and I frequently enacted valorous backyard skirmishes with our little green men. It was a visceral … Read more
How does material culture shape our sense of war?
This is just one of many questions that we invite you to explore with us here, on this blog, and in Baltimore during the annual meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA) this October. We called our blog and ASA panel “War and the Visceral Imagination” because we are interested in how embodied experiences of the material … Read more
