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Picturing Afghanistan : the photography of foreign conflict / Paul Verschueren.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity.Publisher: New York : Hampton Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xiii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1612890385
  • 9781612890388
  • 1612890393
  • 9781612890395
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4499581047 23
LOC classification:
  • DS371.4135 .V47 2012
Contents:
1. Photographs and frames; Photography and theory; The concept of the frame; Using social semiotics for frame analysis; The photojournalistic register and genre; Visual and textual frames; Two examples -- 2. Official U.S. views; Photography and propaganda; A soldier's story; Paper bullets; The white man's burden; Photo-texts in/about war -- 3. Western European press views; Photography and the news; Initial responses across the Atlantic; The framing of combatants and technologies; Visualizing leadership in wartime; Home fronts in a globalized world; Refugees: threatened and dangerous; The civilian body as battleground; Photography and info-graphics; Invisible Afghanistan -- 4. The photo-book; Photography and the documentary tradition; War as quest; Dystopian landscapes; The photo studio as heterotopia; The otherness of war -- Conclusion.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 070.4499581047 VER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A483774B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-183) and index.

1. Photographs and frames; Photography and theory; The concept of the frame; Using social semiotics for frame analysis; The photojournalistic register and genre; Visual and textual frames; Two examples -- 2. Official U.S. views; Photography and propaganda; A soldier's story; Paper bullets; The white man's burden; Photo-texts in/about war -- 3. Western European press views; Photography and the news; Initial responses across the Atlantic; The framing of combatants and technologies; Visualizing leadership in wartime; Home fronts in a globalized world; Refugees: threatened and dangerous; The civilian body as battleground; Photography and info-graphics; Invisible Afghanistan -- 4. The photo-book; Photography and the documentary tradition; War as quest; Dystopian landscapes; The photo studio as heterotopia; The otherness of war -- Conclusion.

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