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Narratives of War
ENGL 122NW - Fall 2005,  Rita Raley

This page contains a list of study materials related to the course. Also, students may be interested in the following campus events scheduled for Fall 2005:

  • Saturday, October 1, Multicultural Center (time tba): Norman Solomon, "War Made Easy"
  • Thursday, October 6, Campbell Hall (8:00 pm): Lecture by Howard Zinn, author of Embracing Humanity - Truth in a Time of War
  • Tuesday, October 11: Screening of The Deer Hunter, Girvetz 1004, 7-10 p.m.
  • Sunday, October 16, Victoria Hall Theater (3:00 pm): Lecture and reading by Ha Jin, author of War Trash
  • Sunday, October 23, 3:00 p.m., Campbell Hall (free): Screening of Seeds (Dir. Marjan Safinia and Joseph Boyle; 2004)
  • Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 p.m., MCC (free): Etel Adnan reading
  • Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall (free): Original Child Bomb ("eye-opening meditation on the human cost of nuclear weapons, focusing on the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki")
  • Off-campus: Getty exhibit, "Pictures for the Press" (through January 22, 2006)


Blogs
 

The Agonist

ArmsControlWonk

Back to Iraq 3.0

Baghdad Burning

Billmon

Blogs of War

Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Defense and the National Interest

Defense Tech

From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games

Global Guerrillas

Healing Iraq

Iraq Body Count (database)

Iraq Coalition Casualties | Iraqi Police & Guardsmen Deaths

Today in Iraq

War and Piece

Warblogging (archives)

Winds of Change

Criticism & Theory
 

Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism (2005)

Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War did not take place (1991)

---, The Spirit of Terrorism (2003)

Tim Blackmore, "Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter as Postmodern War's Pacemaker," Public Culture (2003) | War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (2005)

Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1832)

Jordan Crandall, ed., Under Fire.1: The Organization and Representation of Violence (2004)

James Der Derian, Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War (1992)

---, Virtuous War (2001)

Larry Jay Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (2005)

Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924)

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (2005)

Hugh Gusterson, People of the bomb: portraits of America's nuclear complex (2004)

Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)

Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000)

Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (1985)

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)

Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare At Goats (2004)

Paul Virilio, War and Cinema (1989)

---, Pure War (1984/1997)

---, Desert Screen: War at the speed of light (1991)

---, Strategy of Deception (2000)

Samuel Weber, Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking (2005)

Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War (2002)

Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002)

Related Fiction
 

Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995)

Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (2005)

Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)

Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1956)

Rawi Hage, DeNiro's Game (2006)

Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1989)

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Michael Herr, Dispatches (1968; memoir)

Ha Jin, War Trash (2004)

Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin (1977)

Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden (1991)

Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato (1979)

---, The Things They Carried (1990)

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985)

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (1939)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Herman Wouk

Films
 

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Paths of Glory (1957)

The Mills of the Gods (1965)

MASH (1970)

Hearts and Minds (1974)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Gallipoli (1981)

The Killing Fields (1984)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Land and Freedom (1995)

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame / Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)

Behind the Lines / Regeneration (1997)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

West Beirut / West Beyrouth (1998)

No Man's Land / Nikogarsnja zemlja (2001)

War Photographer (2001)

The Fog of War (2003)

Control Room (2004)

War Feels Like War (2004)

Gunner Palace (2005)

Graphic novels
 

Joe Sacco, Palestine (2002)

Ted Rall, To Afghanistan and Back (2002)

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)

Mark Stamaty, Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq (2004)

Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman, Shooting War (2006)

Television programs
 

Vietnam: A Television History (PBS)

The War Behind Closed Doors (Frontline; February 2003)

Battle Plan Under Fire (NOVA; May 2004)

The Torture Question (Frontline; August 2005)


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