About to Die

How News Images Move the Public

Barbie Zelizer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-975214-0 (ISBN)

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Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or projection? How do a photo's content and form shape a viewer's impressions? What do such images contribute to historical memory? About to Die focuses on one emotionally charged category of news photograph--depictions of individuals who are facing imminent death--as a prism for addressing such vital questions. Tracking events as wide-ranging as the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and 9/11, Barbie Zelizer demonstrates that modes of journalistic depiction and the power of the image are immense cultural forces that are still far from understood. Through a survey of a century of photojournalism, including close analysis of over sixty photos, About to Die provides a framework and vocabulary for understanding the news imagery that so profoundly shapes our view of the world.

Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and the Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

1. Journalism, Memory and The Voice of the Visual ; 2. Why Images of Impending Death Makes Sense in the News ; 3. Presumed Death ; 4. Possible Death ; 5. Certain Death ; 6. Journalism's Mix of Presumption, Possibility and Certainty ; 7. When the "As If" Erases Accountability ; 8. How News Images Move the Public in Print and Onscreen

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.12.2010
Zusatzinfo	55 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 152 mm
Gewicht	618 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-975214-1 / 0199752141
ISBN-13	978-0-19-975214-0 / 9780199752140
Zustand	Neuware