Controversial images : media representations on the edge /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Attwood, Feona
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Mass media > Social aspects. Mass media > Psychological aspects. Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects. Mass media > Influence. Psychic trauma and mass media. Violence in mass media. Torture in mass media. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: controversy and the crisis of the image / Feona Attwood, Vincent Campbell, I.Q. Hunter, & Sharon Lockyer
Controversy and representation. Media-bodies and Photoshop / Meredith Jones
Representation and resemblance in the case of the Danish cartoons / Catherine Collins & David Douglass
Imitation and controversy: performing (trans)sexuality in Post-Communist Bulgaria / Plamena Kourtova
X-ray visions: photography, propaganda and Guantanamo Bay / Bruce Bennett
Constructing controversies. "The terrorists with highlights": Kurdish female suicide bombers in mainstream Turkish media / Ertug Altinay
Constructing effects: disturbing images and the news construction of "media influence" in the Virginia Tech shootings / Jeremy Collins
Border patrol: Trevor Brown, aesthetics and the protection of fictitious children / Adam Stapleton
"The following content is not acceptable" / Julian Petley
Ethics and aesthetics in controversial media
Cutting edge: violence and body horror in anime / Caroline Ruddell
"It's gonna hurt a little bit, but that's okay it makes my cock feel good": Max Hardcore and the myth of pleasure / Stephen Maddison
The lexicon of offense: the meanings of torture, porn, and "torture porn" / Steve Jones
The beast within: materiality, ethics and animal porn / Susanna Paasonen
Engaging with controversial images. Embracing rape: understanding the attractions of exploitation movies / Martin Barker
His soul shatters at about 0:23: Spankwire, self-scaring and hyberbolic shock / Julia Kennedy, and Clarissa Smith
playing with controversial images in videogames: the terrorist mission controversy in "Call of duty: modern warfare 2"
Vincent Campbell
"A bad taste business": tv journalists reflect on the limits of news images / Paul Brighton.