Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: |g 1. |t Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War / |r Lisa Purse -- |g 2. |t Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film / |r Cora Sol Goldstein -- |g 3. |t '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident' / |r Agnieszka Piotrowska -- |g 4. |t Post-heroic War/The Body at Risk / |r Robert Burgoyne -- |g 5. |t Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders / |r Thomas Gregory -- |g 6. |t The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups / |r James Harvey -- |g 7. |t Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror / |r Jessica Auchter -- |g 8. |t Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty / |r Lisa Purse -- |g 9. |t Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq / |r Janet Harris -- |g 10. |t Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present / |r Shohini Chaudhuri -- |g 11. |t Afterword: Reflections on Knowing War / |r Christina Hellmich.

Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like' Zero Dark Thirty' and 'American Sniper', to documentaries like 'Kill List' and 'Dirty Wars',this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions