The Abu Ghraib torture photographs news frames, visual culture and the power of images / [electronic resource] :
Kari Andén-Papadopoulos.
- London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2010.
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (30 min.) : color, sound).
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Contents: Problems of how iconic images in the news exercise power in the shaping of news, politics and public opinion -- Visual culture studies perspective on how media images and their viewers make meaning -- Specific analysis of the meaning and impact of the Abu Ghraib prison photographs -- Critical assessment of the role and limitations of so called 'dominant' news frames in shaping the wider cultural perception of iconic news photographs.
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2404 Henry Stewart Talks
Documentary photography. Iraq War, 2003---Mass media and the war. Journalism, Military.