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War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Using carefully chosen case studies, Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, includ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Apel, Dora, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War and society.
Art and war.
Art and society.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
ART > General.
Art et societe.
Guerre et societe.
Art et guerre.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Using carefully chosen case studies, Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images. Simultaneously, she explores the merging of photojournalism and artistic practices, the effects of visual framing, and the construction of both sanctioned and counter-hegemonic narratives in a global contest of imag.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780813553948

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