ANDREW HILL is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and The London Institute and held Research Fellowships at the University of Reading and the University of Ulster.

• Introduction September 11 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot Acting Out: Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and Since The Bin Laden Tapes 'Shock& Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and Since Endless Waiting Hostage Videos: 'Scenes of Slaughter' Imagining Kabul Phantoms and Jails The Unseen New York: A Return