Violence and War in Culture and the Media

1    Violence and war in culture andthe media through fivedisciplinary lenses

Athina Karatzogianni

Rationale

This volume is integrated around theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war, while attempting to transcend the boundaries of different fields and provide a variety of approaches of the implications of these phenomena on media, culture and society. In doing so, it is introducing current debates in relation to such representations through five particular lenses reflecting the specialisation of the contributors: the historical, the cultural, the political, the sociological and the gender studies perspectives. Although the contributions launch their inquiry from a specific disciplinary platform, it is evident that all authors, ...