Icons of war and terror
Subtitle: media images in an age of international risk
By: John Tulloch and R. Warwick Blood
Contributors: Blood, Richard Warwick, 1947-
Series: Media, war and security
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415698047; 9780415698054; 9780203113097
Subjects: War in mass media; Violence in mass media; Political aspects; Visual communication; Terrorism in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Guernica: icon of state terror; title: Ways of seeing the napalmed girl: icons of agony and beauty; title: Two Bangladeshi boys and public culture: iconic or absent; title: "The Gulf War did not take place": smart-weapon icon; title: Picturing Kosovo: virtual, new or old war?; title: Did 9/11 "change everything"? icons out of a clear blue sky; title: Shock doctrine in Iraq: the "Marlboro Marine" and "shock 'n awe"; title: Abu Ghraib, regimes of looking and risk: icon, index and symbol; title: Witnessing terrorism in New York and London: trauma icons; title: Culture warriors: icons of the colonial, then and now; title: Conclusion: walls and borders.