War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation

How have images of the face been used to document and distort the phenomenon of war? Such is the question that drives this book, with the face forming a recurring — almost ubiquitous — motif throughout visual depictions of military conflict.

At once interdisciplinary, transnational, and transhistorical, War Faces on Screen is organised into three sections. Section One examines representations of the face in war photography, illustrating how photographers have visualised the invisible violen...