About to die : how news images move the public / Barbie Zelizer.
By: Zelizer, Barbie.
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: ix, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199752140 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0199752141 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Photojournalism -- Social aspects -- United States | Death -- Press coverage -- United States | Collective memory -- United StatesDDC classification: 070.4/9 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary | 070.49 Zel 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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.
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