Cloning terror : the war of images, 9/11 to the present /

"The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W.J.T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Subjects:
2001-2009
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Art and the war.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Psychological aspects.
Visual communication > Psychological aspects.
Visual communication > Political aspects.
Oral communication > Psychological aspects.
Oral communication > Political aspects.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009, dans les médias.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 > Aspect psychologique.
Communication visuelle > Aspect psychologique.
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique.
Communication orale > Aspect psychologique.
Communication orale > Aspect politique.
HISTORY.
War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media
Oral communication > Political aspects
Oral communication > Psychological aspects
Psychological aspects
Visual communication > Political aspects
Visual communication > Psychological aspects
Art
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: For a war on error
  • War is over (if you want it)
  • Cloning terror
  • Clonophobia
  • Autoimmunity: picturing terror
  • The unspeakable and the unimaginable
  • Biopictures
  • The Abu Ghraib archive
  • Documentary knowledge and image life
  • State of the union, or Jesus comes to Abu Ghraib
  • Conclusion: A poetics of the historical image.

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