List of Illustration Acknowledgments Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines ELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLER SECTION ONE: SILENCES Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence JAY WINTERNot Writing about War KATE MCLOUGHLINOccupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin BRAD PRAGERSECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES Historiographical Simulations of War STEPHAN JAEGERThe Aestheticization of Suffering on Television LILIE CHOULIARAKISlotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made HELENA GOSCILOSECTION THREE: IDENTITIES Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition JENNIFER C. JAMESExchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia SERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINEIdentity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome JAMES T. CHLUPSECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films ELENA V. BARABANMonsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror DAVID M. LUBIN'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' – Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War SIMON BAKERContributors Index

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