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About to die : 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 i...

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Main Author: Zelizer, Barbie
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:ix, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-406) and index.
ISBN:0199752133(cloth:alk.paper)
0199752141(pbk.:alk.paper)
9780199752133(cloth:alk.paper)
9780199752140(pbk.:alk.paper)