Picturing Afghanistan
Subtitle: the photography of foreign conflict
By: Paul Verschueren
Series: The Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612890388; 9781612890395
Subjects: Public relations and politics; Press coverage; Photography; Journalism; Psychological warfare; Photobooks; Mass media and war; Political aspects; Afghan War, 2001-; Propaganda; Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Photographs and Frames; title: Photography and Theory; title: The Concept of the Frame; title: Using Social Semiotics for Frame Analysis; title: The Photojournalistic Register and Genre; title: Visual and Textual Frames; title: Two Examples; title: Official U.S. Views; title: Photography and Propaganda; title: A Soldier's Story; title: Paper Bullets; title: The White Man's Burden; title: Photo-Texts In/About War; title: Western European Press Views; title: Photography and the News; title: Initial Responses Across the Atlantic; title: The Framing of Combatants and Technologies; title: Visualizing Leadership in Wartime; title: Home Fronts in a Globalized World; title: Refugees : Threatened and Dangerous; title: The Civilian Body as Battleground; title: Photography and Info-Graphics; title: Invisible Afghanistan; title: The Photo-Book; title: Photography and the Documentary Tradition; title: War as Quest; title: Dystopian Landscapes; title: The Photo Studio as Heterotopia; title: The Otherness of War; title: Conclusion.