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Narratives of War
ENGL 122NW - Winter 2007,  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 Winter 2007:

  • Wednesday, January 10: Film screening of Iraq in Fragments, Campbell Hall, 7:30 p.m. ($5)
  • Thursday, January 18: Lecture by Mark Danner, "Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the War on Terror," Campbell Hall, 8 p.m. (free)
  • Thursday, February 1: Lecture by Alfred McCoy, "A Short History of Psychological Torture: Its Discovery, Propagation, Perfection, and Legalization," Campbell Hall, 4 p.m. (free)
  • Sunday, February 4: Film screening of The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl, Campbell Hall, 3 p.m. (free)


Blogs
 

The Agonist

ArmsControlWonk

Back to Iraq 3.0

Baghdad Burning

Billmon

Blogs of War

Danger Room (Wired)

Defense and the National Interest

Defense Tech

Dictionary of War (Multitude e.V. and Unfriendly Takeover)

From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games

Global Guerrillas

Healing Iraq

Inside Iraq (McClatchy)

Iraq Body Count (database)

Iraq Coalition Casualties | Iraqi Police & Guardsmen Deaths

Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Today in Iraq

Winds of Change

War and Piece

Warblogging (archives)

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)

Manuel De Landa, "Economics, Computers and the War Machine"

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

---, Virtuous War (2001)

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)

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

Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (1985)

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)

Paul Virilio, Pure War (1984/1997)

---, War and Cinema (1989)

---, 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)

Films
 

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Attack (1956)

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)

Platoon (1986)

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)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

No Man's Land / Nikogarsnja zemlja (2001)

War Photographer (2001)

The Fog of War (2003)

BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge (2004)

Control Room (2004)

War Feels Like War (2004)

Gunner Palace (2005)

Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (2005)

Occupation: Dreamland (2005)

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)

The Ground Truth (2006)

Indigènes / Days of Glory (2006)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

No End in Sight (2007)

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, If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973)

---, Going After Cacciato (1979)

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

Graphic novels
 

Ted Rall, To Afghanistan and Back (2002)

Joe Sacco, Palestine (2002)

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

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

Iran
 

News from Iran Reports (Channel 4; March 2006)

Seymour Hersh, "The Iran Plans," The New Yorker (April 2006)

William R. Polk, "The Middle East: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead" (September 2006)

Seymour Hersh, "The Next Act," The New Yorker (November 2006)

Norman Dombey, "Iran and the Bomb," LRB (January 25, 2007)

William M. Arkin, Early Warning, Washington Post (January 2007) | "Not Just A Last Resort?" Washington Post (May 2005)

Glenn Greenwald, The President's power to attack Iran (January 2007)

Paul Craig Roberts, "Why Can't Americans See What's Coming?" (January 2007)

Anthony Shadid, "With Iran Ascendant, U.S. Is Seen at Fault," Washington Post (January 2007)

Juan Cole, "The danger of Bush's anti-Iran fatwa," Salon (January 2007)

Robert Parry, Iran Clock Is Ticking | Bush Is Hiding the Ball on Iran (February 2007)

James Fallows, "Where Congress Can Draw the Line," The Atlantic Unbound (February 2007)

Gary Kamiya, "Bush's Iran madness, Salon (February 2007)

John W. Dean, Leading Experts Say Congress Must Stop An Attack on Iran: Is That Constitutionally Possible?, FindLaw (February 2007)

Ewen MacAskill, Target Iran: US able to strike in the spring, Guardian (February 2007)

Iran in Iraq: The PowerPoint Presentation, TPM Muckraker.com (February 2007)

Juan Cole, "NYT Falls for Bogus Iran Weapons Charges," Informed Comment (February 2007)

Analysis: President Bush briefing on Iranian arms transfers, Talking Points Memo (February 14, 2007)

"The Iran Options," Washington Post (February 2007)

Adam Shatz, "Why Iran 'meddles' in Iraq, "LA Times (February 2007)

Bob Drogin and Kim Murphy, "U.N. calls U.S. data on Iran's nuclear aims unreliable," LA Times (February 2007)

Craig Unger, "From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq," Vanity Fair (March 2007)

Seymour Hersh, "The Redirection," The New Yorker (March 2007)

NYT’s Michael Gordon Now Echoing Bush Claims On Iran, Think Progress (August 2007)

Paul Richter, "Maliki, Bush may differ on Iran's role, LA Times (August 2007)

Matt Stearns, "Bush, Congress could collide on Iran," McClatchy (August 2007)

Robin Wright, "Iranian Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist'," Washington Post (August 2007)

President Bush Address to the 89th Annual National Convention of the American Legion (August 2007)

"Pentagon 'Three-Day Blitz' Plan for Iran," The Times (September 2007)

Barnett R. Rubin, Iran War Rollout Starts: Link to Iraq Troop Reductions?, Informed Comment Global Affairs (September 2007)

Proxy war could soon turn to direct conflict, analysts warn, Guardian (September 2007)

Neocon 'godfather' Norman Podhoretz tells Bush: bomb Iran, The Times (September 2007)

Seymour Hersh, "Shifting Targets: The Administration's Plan for Iran," The New Yorker (October 2007)

John H. Richardson, "The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know," Esquire (October 2007)

Will Bush really bomb Iran?" The Times (October 2007)

Peter Baker and Robin Wright, " A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy," Washington Post (December 2007)

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)

Return of the Taliban (Frontline; October 2006)

FutureWeapons (Discovery Channel; 2006-07)

Showdown with Iran (Frontline; October 2007)

War in Iraq
 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (2006)

Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (2005)

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

Michael R. Gordon, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (2006)

Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006)

Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (2007)

Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq (2006)

Occupation: Dreamland, Dir. Ian Olds (2005)

No End in Sight, Dir. Charles Ferguson (2006)

The War Tapes, Dir. Deborah Scranton (2006)

Iraq in Fragments, Dir. James Longley (2006)


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