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Author:

Verschueren, Paul.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Hampton Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Afghan War, 2001---Photography.
Afghan War, 2001---Pictorial works.
Afghan War, 2001---Press coverage.
Afghan War, 2001---Political aspects.
Psychological warfare--Afghanistan.
Propaganda--Western countries.
Public relations and politics--Western countries.
Journalism--Political aspects--Western countries.
Photobooks--Political aspects--Western countries.
Mass media and war--Western countries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-183) and indexes.

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.

Series:

The Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity

ISBN:

1612890393 (paperbound)
9781612890395 (paperbound)
1612890385 (hardbound)
9781612890388 (hardbound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)768417956

LCCN:

2011050234

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)