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Global humanitarianism and media culture /

This collection interrogates the representation of humanitarian crisis, catastrophe and care. Contributors explore the refraction of humanitarian intervention from the mid-twentieth century to the present across a diverse range of media forms, including screen media (film, television and online vide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lawrence, Michael, 1973- (Editor ), Tavernor, Rachel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Colección:Humanitarianism (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : global humanitarianism and media culture
  • Histories of humanity. "United Nations children" in Hollywood cinema : juvenile actors and humanitarian sentiment in the 1940s / Michael Lawrence
  • Classical antiquity as a humanitarian narrative : the Marshall Plan films about Greece / Katerina Loukopoulou
  • "The most potent public relations tool ever devised"? : the United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s / Agnieszka Sobocinska
  • Narratives of humanitarianism. The naive republic of aid : grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir / Emily Bauman
  • "Telegenically dead Palestinians" : cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts / Sohini Chaudhuri
  • The unknown famine : television and the politics of British humanitarianism / Andrew Jones
  • Reporting refuge and risk. European borderscapes : the management of migration between care and control / Pierluigi Musarò
  • The role of aid agencies in the media portrayl of children in Za'atari Refuge Camp / Toby Fricker
  • Selling the lottery to earn salvation : journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel Andrade
  • Capitalism, consumption and charity. Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood / Laura Suski
  • Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook : from starving children to satirical saviours / Rachel Tavernor
  • The corporate karma carnival : offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival / Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog Olwig.