This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects
our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image
representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and
outcome of contemporary warfare?
The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the images of beheadings on the
internet; the emaciated figure in a Bosnian-Serb concentration
camp; the dancing flashes across the skylines of Baghdad as US-led
air bombardment deals blows to another 'rogue' regime: such images
define contemporary conflict.
Drawing on a wide range of examples from fiction and factual
film, current affairs and television news, as well as new digital
media, this book introduces the notion of moving images as the key
weapons in contemporary armed conflict. The authors make use of
information about the US, the UK, the 'War on Terror', the former
Yugoslavia, former Soviet states, the Middle East and Africa.
War, Image and Legitimacy will be of great interest to students
of war and security studies, media and communication studies, and
international relations in general.
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