Death makes the news: how the media censor and display the dead
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death concealed: the picture problem -- "Cold bodies are hot stuff" -- Alternative images -- The industry's ample access -- Intentionally ambiguous images -- Layers of resistance -- Word versus image -- Death revealed: exceptions to the rule -- Pictu...
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Medienart: | Druck Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York
New York University Press
[2017]
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In: | Jahr: 2017 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death concealed: the picture problem -- "Cold bodies are hot stuff" -- Alternative images -- The industry's ample access -- Intentionally ambiguous images -- Layers of resistance -- Word versus image -- Death revealed: exceptions to the rule -- Pictures in the popular and patrician press -- Nationality and the "newsworthy" image -- Innocence and the "newsworthy" victim -- Mass tragedy and the biggest disasters -- The fantastic feats of some photos -- Victims seeking visibility -- In the end -- Appendix: defining a postmortem picture -- Notes -- Index -- About the author |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | viii, 281 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9780814760451 9780814770757 |