Terror
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'In an acute and stimulating analysis, Charlotte Klonk traces the longue durée of media responses to terror attacks, from the woodcuts of nineteenth-century illustrated magazines to live video recordings of attacks, unearthing striking continuities in the way that the mass media frames and attempts to tame attacks on public order.'
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Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
In June 2016, a French policeman was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb. His assailant gained access to the victim's flat, where he murdered the policeman's partner in front of their three-year-old son. Les mer
With the expert eye of an art historian, Charlotte Klonk documents the visual machinery of terrorism from the late nineteenth century to the present day. She shows that the propaganda videos form the IS are nothing new. On the contrary, perpetrators of terror acts have always made use of images to spread their cause through the media - as have their enemy, the state. This is an indispensable book for understanding the background and dynamic of terror today.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 280
- ISBN
- 9781526147134
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
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'In an acute and stimulating analysis, Charlotte Klonk traces the longue durée of media responses to terror attacks, from the woodcuts of nineteenth-century illustrated magazines to live video recordings of attacks, unearthing striking continuities in the way that the mass media frames and attempts to tame attacks on public order.'
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Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art