Picture perfect
Subtitle: life in the age of the photo op
By: Kiku Adatto.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691124391; 9780691124407
Subjects: Mass media -- Influence; Television in politics -- United States; Mass media and culture -- United States; Photography, Artistic; Popular culture -- United States; Images, Photographic; Television broadcasting -- United States; Journalism -- United States; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States; Photojournalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Picture perfect; title: Photo-op politics and the media; title: Contesting control of the picture; title: Exposed images : from the Supreme Court justices to the Truman show; title: Mythic pictures : movie heroes from John Wayne to Spiderman; title: The person and the pose.