Terror : when images become weapons / Charlotte Klonk ; translated from the German by Martina Dervis and Margaret Hiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klonk, Charlotte, author.

Contributor:

Derviş, Martina, translator.

Hiley, Margaret, translator.

Standardized Title:

Terror. English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Terrorism and mass media--History.

Terrorism and mass media.

Terrorism--History.

Terrorism.

History.

Propaganda--History.

Propaganda.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Contents:

- Image patterns p. 3

- The meaning of 'terror' p. 5

- Images and evidence p. 11

I Close-up: assassinations and bomb attacks in the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries p. 20

- Self-proclaimed terrorists of the first hour: the attack on Tsar Alexander II p. 22

- The first serial attacks in history: Irish terror in London p. 32

- Targeting bourgeois society: anarchist attackers in Paris p. 40

- Tactics and strategies at the end of the nineteenth century p. 45

- The Western world as the enemy: the attack on the World Trade Center in New York p. 49

- An attack without icons and the triumph of charity: bombings in Madrid and London p. 62

- An image pattern and its limits p. 66

2 Distant images: hostage-takings and aircraft hijackings since the 1960s p. 72

- New strategies in the 1970s: from the Tupamaros in Uruguay to the RAF in Germany p. 79

- Signs of life in the 1980s: hostage-takings in Lebanon p. 94

- Involuntary complicity in the early twenty-first century: the decapitation videos of Al-Qaida and IS p. 101

- Media events: plane hijackings of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the 1970s p. 105

- Between fact and fiction p. 114

3 Images of perpetrators: from wanted posters to propaganda videos p. 118

- Ambivalent images: from wanted posters to surveillance camera footage p. 128

- Humiliating images: 'A naked terrorist is no longer a threat' p. 139

- Self-styling: from courtroom to propaganda video p. 148

- The migration of images: from enemy to martyr p. 162

4 Image ethics p. 168

- Image and reality: patterns and structures p. 169

- The power of images: empiricism and hermeneutics p. 171

- Controlling images: State, media and human rights organisations p. 175

- Image usage and responsibility: eyewitnesses and media prosumers p. 189.

Notes:

Originally published in German as "Terror: Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden" by S. Fischer, 2017.

Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1526147130

9781526147134

OCLC:

1130762490