Charlotte Klonk

Terror

When Images Become Weapons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the role that images of terror haveplayed up to the present day. The author analyses visualstrategies, places them in their historical context, and answers pressingquestions around the ethical treatment of images of terrorism. It provides avital insight into our age old morbid fascination with terrorism. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781526147134
• ISBN-10: 1526147130
• Artikelnr.: 58521352

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Klonk is Professor of Art History and New Media at Humboldt University, Berlin and member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She has held fellowships at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. Among other publications, Klonk is the author of Spaces of Experience (2009) and the co-editor of Image Operations (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Close-up: Assassinations and Bomb Attacks in the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries 2 Distant Images:
Hostage-Takings and Aircraft Hijackings since the 1960s 3 Images of
Perpetrators: From Wanted Posters to Propaganda Videos 4 Image Ethics
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