War, Image and Legitimacy
Viewing Contemporary Conflict
This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare?The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the images of beheadings on the internet; the emaciated figure in a Bosnian-Serb concentration camp; the dancing flashes across the skylines of Baghdad as US-led air bombardment deals blows to another 'rogue' regime: such images define contemporary conflict.Drawing on a wide range of examples from fiction and factual film, current af…
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Weitere Autoren: Michalski, Milena
- ISBN: 978-1-134-14543-0
- EAN: 9781134145430
- Produktnummer: 18403708
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'659 KB
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