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Distant wars visible

Kozol, Wendy, 1958-

Distant wars visible the ambivalence of witnessing / [electronic resource] : Wendy Kozol. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Critical American studies series . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: looking elsewhere -- Domesticating war in Kosovo: media witnessing and transnational motherhood -- Human rights, visual rhetoric: photojournalism and the war in Afghanistan -- Precarity in the night sky: missile defense advocacy and the U.S. surveillance regime -- Battlefield trophies: soldiers' archives and the affective politics of recoil -- Skeptical documents: toward an ethics of spectatorship -- Conclusion: from the sky, on the ground.

9781452942773 1452942773


Visual communication--Political aspects.
Photojournalism--Political aspects.
War--Press coverage.
War in mass media.
War photography.


Electronic books.

TR820.6 / .K79 2014

070.4/9