Zelizer, Barbie.
About to die : how news images move the public / Barbie Zelizer. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - ix, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-406) and index.
Journalism, memory, and the voice of the visual -- Why images of impending death makes sense in the news -- Presumed death -- Possible death -- Certain death -- Journalism's mix of presumption, possibility, and certainty -- When the "as if" erases accountability -- How news images move the public.
An analysis of about-to-die images in 19th, 20th and 21st century U.S. journalism, with some discussion of news images elsewhere, raises fundamental questions both about how these pictures depict the news, how they figure in collective memory and how they connect with the public at multiple points in time. In so doing, it suggests a refinement of how news images have been thought to function and how the public has been thought to respond.
9780199752140 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199752141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010012024
GBB097980 bnb
015629235 Uk
Photojournalism--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Press coverage--United States.
Collective memory--United States.
TR820 / .Z45 2010
070.4/9
About to die : how news images move the public / Barbie Zelizer. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - ix, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-406) and index.
Journalism, memory, and the voice of the visual -- Why images of impending death makes sense in the news -- Presumed death -- Possible death -- Certain death -- Journalism's mix of presumption, possibility, and certainty -- When the "as if" erases accountability -- How news images move the public.
An analysis of about-to-die images in 19th, 20th and 21st century U.S. journalism, with some discussion of news images elsewhere, raises fundamental questions both about how these pictures depict the news, how they figure in collective memory and how they connect with the public at multiple points in time. In so doing, it suggests a refinement of how news images have been thought to function and how the public has been thought to respond.
9780199752140 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199752141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010012024
GBB097980 bnb
015629235 Uk
Photojournalism--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Press coverage--United States.
Collective memory--United States.
TR820 / .Z45 2010
070.4/9