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Author | : John Tulloch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136285431 |
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This book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror. Icons of War and Terror explores theories of iconic images of war and terror, not as received pieties but as challenging uncertainties; in doing so, it engages with both critical discourse and conventional image-making. The authors draw on these theories to re-investigate the media/global context of some of the most iconic representations of war and terror in the international ‘risk society’. Among these photojournalistic images are: Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a naked girl, Kim Phuc, running burned from a napalm attack in Vietnam in June 1972; a quintessential ‘ethnic cleansing’ image of massacred Kosovar Albanian villagers at Racak on January 15, 1999, which finally propelled a hesitant Western alliance into the first of the ‘new humanitarian wars’; Luis Simco’s photograph of marine James Blake Miller, ‘the Marlboro Man’, at Fallujah, Iraq, 2004; the iconic toppling of the World Trade Centre towers in New York by planes on September 11, 2001; and the ‘Falling Man’ icon – one of the most controversial images of 9/11; the image of one of the authors of this book, as close-up victim of the 7/7 terrorist attack on London, which the media quickly labelled iconic. This book will be of great interest to students of media and war, sociology, communications studies, cultural studies, terrorism studies and security studies in general.
Author | : W. J. T. Mitchell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226532607 |
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The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.
Author | : Jeremy Prestholdt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190092645 |
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The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.
Author | : Yasmin Ibrahim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2020-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100017848X |
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This book offers critical perspectives on the digital ‘iconic’, exploring how the notion of the iconic is re-appropriated and re-made online, and the consequences for humanity and society. Examining cross-cultural case studies of iconic images in digital spaces, the author offers original and critical analyses, theories and perspectives on the notion of the ‘iconic’, and on its movement, re-appropriation and meaning making on digital platforms. A carefully curated selection of case studies illustrates topics such as phantom memory; martyrdom; denigration and pornographic recoding; digital games as simulacra; and memes as ‘artification’. Situating the notion of the iconic firmly within contemporary cultures, the author takes a thematic approach to investigate the iconic as an unstable and unfinished phenomenon online as it travels through platforms temporally and spatially. The book will be an important resource for academics and students in the areas of media and communications, digital culture, cultural studies, visual communication, visual culture, journalism studies and digital humanities.
Author | : Joseph Masco |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822375990 |
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How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.
Author | : Harold Alvin |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-12-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479767549 |
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IN JULY OF 2007, the IAEA confirmed that North Korea had started to shut down its main nuclear plant at Pyongsong. It is hoped they will continue to dismantle their nuclear weapons. Sergeant Mac Erick recovered from his gunshot wounds and the infection that ravaged his body. However, the infection did damage his heart. He spent several weeks in the hospital before receiving a medical discharge. His best buddy Sergeant Leyton Wesley accompanied him back to his hometown in Melbourne, Florida where he continues to undergo therapy for his left shoulder. He is working as a video and camera communications expert with one of the major broadcast affiliates in his hometown. Sergeant Billy John later transferred to the U.S. base in Germany where he continues to develop his special expertise in explosives. He is recognized among the top five demolitions experts in the world. Sergeant Leyton Wesley completed his tour of duty in South Korea. For a short time he preformed contractual work for the U.S. Army. He has since moved back to his home state of Texas in Richardson where he operates a successful camera and photography shop. He is married and looking forward to his new baby. Greco Mohammed has retired or at least that what he says at the moment. This time might, however, be different. With Maria, his wife, they live in Georgetown with twin boys who both have their mothers famous blue eyes.
Author | : Mike German |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1597973270 |
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As the fifth full year of America's global war on terrorism continues, statistics concerning terrorist attacks show a disturbing trend: from a twenty-one-year high in 2003, attacks tripled in 2004 and then doubled in 2005. And as the incidence of terrorist attacks increased, so has the number of terrorists. While the primary leaders of the Taliban, al Qaeda, and al Qaeda in Iraq remain at large, a 2006 Department of Defense study reportedly identified thirty new al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups that have been created since September 11, 2001. We may not have metrics that measure our success in the war on terrorism, but these realities certainly illuminate our failures. In Thinking Like a Terrorist, former FBI counterterrorism agent Mike German contends that the overarching problem is a fundamental failure to understand the terrorists--namely, what they want and how they intend to get it. When our counterterrorism policies are driven by misunderstanding and misperception, we shouldn't be surprised at the results. Today's terrorists have a real plan--a blueprint that has brought them victory in the past--that they are executing to perfection; moreover, their plan is published and available to anyone who bothers to read it. Once the terrorists' plan is understood, we can develop and implement more effective counterterrorism strategies. A former undercover agent who infiltrated neo-Nazi terrorist groups in the United States, German explains the terrorist's point of view and discusses ways to counter the terrorism threat. Based on his unusual experience in the field, Thinking Like a Terrorist provides unique insights into why terrorism is such a persistent and difficult problem and why the U.S. approach to counterterrorism isn't working.
Author | : Jimi Ronald |
Publisher | : European Alliance for Innovation |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2022-07-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 163190356X |
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This proceedings is a forum for researchers, lecturers, students and practitioners to exchange ideas and the latest information in their respective areas with prospective papers that give contributive impact on the development of economic and education.
Author | : John L. Esposito |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195168860 |
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Of the intellectual underpinnings of the more radical elements of contemporary Islam.
Author | : David Kieran |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813572630 |
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Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants—as potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid anti-immigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars. The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people's experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terror—and how adults understand the way young people think—The War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.