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Killing for show : photography, war, and the media in Vietnam and Iraq / Julian Stallabrass.

Fine Arts Library TR820.6 .S73 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stallabrass, Julian, author.
Contributor:
Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Photography.
Iraq.
United States.
War photography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Photography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Photography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Mass media and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Mass media and the war.
War--Press coverage--United States.
War.
War--Press coverage.
Mass media and war.
Physical Description:
xxv, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Summary:
"Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda-from close-quarters fighting to the drone's electronic vision-as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. The War of Images
pt. I PR
2. Operation Snapshot
3. From Vietnam to Iraq
4. The Triumph of PR
5. The Enemy and the Press
pt. II Speed
6. Photographic Acceleration
7. Don't Show Me That
8. The Look and Speed of War
pt. III Gulag
9. Captives on Display
10. Black Sites
pt. IV Murder
11. Killing Regimes
12. Depicting the Guilty
13. Patterns of Killing in Iraq
14. Circles of Invisibility
pt. V Amateurs
15. Instamatic Terror
16. Photographic Citizens
pt. VI Memory
17. The Iconic Image and Modern Memory
18. The Fading Icon in Iraq
19. The Great Exception
20. Fire and Forget
pt. VII Democracy
21. Barbarity and Lies
22. Repression and Resistance.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Stallabrass, Julian. Killing for show.
ISBN:
9781538141809
1538141809
OCLC:
1152056407
Publisher Number:
99985640549

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