Iraq War Cultures

Cynthia Fuchs is Director of Film & Media Studies at George Mason University, as well as Associate Professor of English, African & African American Studies, and Film & Video Studies, with a focus on documentary. She is Film-TV Editor at PopMatters.com. Joe Lochard is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He teaches American literature and specializes in the literature of U.S. slavery. He directs the Antislavery Literature Project.

Contents: Cynthia Fuchs/Joe Lockard: Introduction: «Shrapnel throughout the Body»: U.S. War Culture and Iraq – Patrick Brantlinger: Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror – Leanne McRae: Memory, Meaning, and Mass Destruction – Murray Pomerance: Bagdad Bad – Anna Froula: «America, Fuck Yeah!»: Patriotic Puppetry in Team America: World Police – Tony Perucci: Fight or Fuck: Performing Neoliberalism at Abu Ghraib – David Clearwater: «Zap the Iraqoids»: War, Video Games, and Perception Management – Cynthia Fuchs: «You Just Want Stories»: Iraqi Subjects, American Documentaries – Zoe Trodd/Nathaniel Nadaff-Hafrey: «George, They Were Only Movies»: The Vietnam Syndrome in Iraq War Culture – Stephanie Athey: The Torturer’s Tale: Tony Lagouranis in Mosul and the Media – Henry Giroux: From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib: Rethinking Adorno’s Politics of Education.