German Ways of War: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films

German Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting — between shooting a camera and discharging a gun - this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their v...