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Icons of war and terror : media images in an age of international risk / / John Tulloch and R. Warwick Blood



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Autore: Tulloch John Visualizza persona
Titolo: Icons of war and terror : media images in an age of international risk / / John Tulloch and R. Warwick Blood Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 303.6
Soggetto topico: War in mass media
Terrorism in mass media
Violence in mass media
Visual communication - Political aspects
Altri autori: BloodRichard Warwick <1947->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Guernica: icon of state terror; 2 Ways of seeing the napalmed girl: icons of agony and beauty; 3 Two Bangladeshi boys and public culture: iconic or absent?; 4 'The Gulf War did not take place': smart-weapon icon; 5 Picturing Kosovo: virtual, new or old war?; 6 Did 9/11 'change everything'? Icons out of a clear blue sky; 7 Shock doctrine in Iraq: the 'Marlboro Marine' and 'Shock and Awe'; 8 Abu Ghraib, regimes of looking and risk: icon, index and symbol; 9 Witnessing terrorism in New York and London: trauma icons
10 Culture warriors: icons of the colonial, then and now11 Conclusion: walls and borders; References; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror. Icons of War and Terror explores theories of iconic images of war and terror, not as received pieties but as challenging uncertainties; in doing so, it engages with both critical discourse and conventional image-making. The authors draw on these theories to re-investigate the media/global context of some of the most iconic representations of war and terror in the international 'risk society'. Among these photojournalistic images are: Nick
Titolo autorizzato: Icons of war and terror  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-28543-1
1-283-52134-2
9786613833792
0-203-11309-8
1-136-28544-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815902303321
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Serie: Media, War and Security