The Iraq war has produced profound changes within the United States changes manifested by
popular discontent with the war. On one hand U.S. culture finds its own ideological reflection
in the Iraq war on the other hand U.S. media repeatedly critique the social and political
forces that produce the war. These multiple and contradictory assessments have been
characterized by intensified imagery and narratives an escalation that is in part a function
of the new communications technologies used to generate them. This book examines the images and
stories emerging from the Iraq war from video games that retell its battles the
representations of Arab people in American film history and U.S. war documentaries to parody
and memoir and photographs from Abu Ghraib.
