Warscapes (Paperback)

Cortland Rankin

ISBN 10: 197884574X / ISBN 13: 9781978845749

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ, 2026

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Paperback. What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering the relationship between war, environment, and media along three lines: imagined geographies of control that prefigure environments as spaces of war; representations of resistance to occupation and ecocidal violence; and elemental reframings of archives and cultural memories of war. This book offers novel perspectives on historical conflict environments while also examining how hypothetical spaces of conflict are imagined. Deploying theoretical perspectives gleaned from film and media studies, ecocriticism, environmental history, urban studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies, among others, authors highlight an international spectrum of 21st-century fiction films and television series, documentaries, and video installations that challenge how we look at war. What happens to our idea of a battlefield when we focus on environments of conflict? Warscapes approaches this question from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This volume explores how media can promote an environmental awareness that scholars and media makers can use to rethink and reimagine how we view war. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Warscapes (Paperback)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 197884574X
• ISBN 13: 9781978845749
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering the relationship between war, environment, and media along three lines: imagined geographies of control that prefigure environments as spaces of war; representations of resistance to occupation and ecocidal violence; and elemental reframings of archives and cultural memories of war. This book offers novel perspectives on historical conflict environments while also examining how hypothetical spaces of conflict are imagined. Deploying theoretical perspectives gleaned from film and media studies, ecocriticism, environmental history, urban studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies, among others, authors highlight an international spectrum of 21st-century fiction films and television series, documentaries, and video installations that challenge how we look at war. 

About the Author

CORTLAND RANKIN is an assistant professor of film studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York.

BRADY FLETCHER is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Rochester in New York.