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About to Die - How News Images Move the Public (Hardcover)
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About to Die - How News Images Move the Public (Hardcover)
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Images of people about to die surface repeatedly in the news,
particularly around the difficult and unsettled events of war,
political revolution, terrorism, natural disaster, and other
crises. Their appearance raises questions: What equips an image to
deliver the news; how much does the public need to know to make
sense of what they see; and what do these images contribute to
historical memory? About To Die addresses these questions by using
images of imminent death as a litmus test for considering news
imagery and visual meaning more broadly. The depictions, freezing
action at the elemental moment when a person's contribution to
history is registered, elicit contemplation and emotion. Used in
ways that counter traditional understandings of both journalistic
practice and the public's response to news, such images drive the
public encounter with important events through impulses of
implication, conditionality, hypothesis and contingency, rather
than through evidentiary force. These images call on us to rethink
both journalism and its public response, and in so doing they
suggest both an alternative voice in the news-a subjunctive voice
of the visual that pushes the 'as if' of news over its 'as is'
dimensions-and an alternative mode of public engagement with
journalism-an engagement fueled not by reason and understanding but
by imagination and emotion. Tracking events as wide-ranging as the
1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Holocaust, Vietnam War, famine,
Intifada, 2004 tsunami, and 9/11 and the 'war on terror,' this book
suggests that a different kind of news relay, producing a different
kind of public response, has settled into our information
environment. It is in a development that has profound and
under-explored implications for society's collective memory, the
full breadth of which are tackled here.
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