Distant wars visible : the ambivalence of witnessing /

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'Distant Wars Visible' brings a new perspective to the enduring question about the efficacy of conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy. In the twenty-first century, visuality has been a pivotal technology in the United States' militaristic pursuit of its national secur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kozol, Wendy, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Critical American studies series.
Temas:
War photography.
War in mass media.
War > Press coverage.
Photojournalism > Political aspects.
Visual communication > Political aspects.
Photographie de guerre.
Guerre dans les médias.
Guerre > Couverture de presse.
Photographie de presse > Aspect politique.
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique.
war photography.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: looking elsewhere
  • Domesticating war in Kosovo: media witnessing and transnational motherhood
  • Human rights, visual rhetoric: photojournalism and the war in Afghanistan
  • Precarity in the night sky: missile defense advocacy and the U.S. surveillance regime
  • Battlefield trophies: soldiers' archives and the affective politics of recoil
  • Skeptical documents: toward an ethics of spectatorship
  • Conclusion: from the sky, on the ground.

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