Distant wars visible : the ambivalence of witnessing / Wendy Kozol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozol, Wendy, 1958- author.

Series:

Critical American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication--Political aspects.

Visual communication.

War photography.

War in mass media.

War--Press coverage.

War.

Photojournalism--Political aspects.

Photojournalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war. At the book's center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence-a critical approach to the tensions between spectacle and empathy provoked by gazing

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Looking Elsewhere; 1. Domesticating War in Kosovo: Media Witnessing and Transnational Motherhood; 2. Human Rights, Visual Rhetoric: Photojournalism and the War in Afghanistan; 3. Precarity in the Night Sky: Missile Defense Advocacy and the U.S. Surveillance Regime; 4. Battlefield Trophies: Soldiers' Archives and the Affective Politics of Recoil; 5. Skeptical Documents: Toward an Ethics of Spectatorship; Conclusion: From the Sky, on the Ground; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4277-3