About to Die

How News Images Move the Public

Szerző: Barbie Zelizer

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc

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Küldés 28-34 napon belül

14 933 Ft

Images of people about to die surface repeatedly in the news, particularly around the difficult and...

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Szerző

Barbie Zelizer

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

432

EAN

9780199752140

ISBN

0199752141

Enbook ID

04535553

Kiadó

Oxford University Press Inc

Súly

616

Méretek

236 x 159 x 28

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Images of people about to die surface repeatedly in the news, particularly around the difficult and unsettled events of war, political revolution, terrorism, natural disaster, and other crises. Their appearance raises questions: What equips an image to deliver the news; how much does the public need to know to make sense of what they see; and what do these images contribute to historical memory? About To Die addresses these questions by using images of imminent death as a litmus test for considering news imagery and visual meaning more broadly. The depictions, freezing action at the elemental moment when a person's contribution to history is registered, elicit contemplation and emotion. Used in ways that counter traditional understandings of both journalistic practice and the public's response to news, such images drive the public encounter with important events through impulses of implication, conditionality, hypothesis and contingency, rather than through evidentiary force. These images call on us to rethink both journalism and its public response, and in so doing they suggest both an alternative voice in the news-a subjunctive voice of the visual that pushes the 'as if' of news over its 'as is' dimensions-and an alternative mode of public engagement with journalism-an engagement fueled not by reason and understanding but by imagination and emotion. Tracking events as wide-ranging as the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Holocaust, Vietnam War, famine, Intifada, 2004 tsunami, and 9/11 and the 'war on terror,' this book suggests that a different kind of news relay, producing a different kind of public response, has settled into our information environment. It is in a development that has profound and under-explored implications for society's collective memory, the full breadth of which are tackled here.

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