TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verschueren,Paul
TI  - Picturing Afghanistan: the photography of foreign conflict 
T2  - The Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity
SN  - 1612890385
AV  - DS371.4135 .V47 2012
U1  - 070.4499581047 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Hampton Press
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Photography
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Psychological warfare
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Public relations and politics
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Photobooks
KW  - Mass media and war
N1  - 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
ER  -