Distant Wars Visible : The Ambivalence of Witnessing /

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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 conflic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kozol, Wendy, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War > Press coverage.
War photography.
War in mass media.
Visual communication > Political aspects.
Photojournalism > Political aspects.
war photography.
Photographie de presse > Aspect politique.
Guerre > Couverture de presse.
Guerre dans les medias.
Photographie de guerre.
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781452942773

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