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Icons of war and terror : media images in an age of international risk / John Tulloch and R. Warwick Blood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tulloch, John, author.
- Series:
- Media, War and Security
- Media, war and security
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War in mass media.
- Terrorism in mass media.
- Violence in mass media.
- Visual communication--Political aspects.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-28543-1
- 1-283-52134-2
- 9786613833792
- 0-203-11309-8
- 1-136-28544-X
- 9780203113097
- OCLC:
- 804661418
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