Distant wars visible : the ambivalence of witnessing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kozol, Wendy, 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Series:	Critical American studies series.
Subjects:	War photography. War in mass media. War > Press coverage. Photojournalism > Political aspects. Visual communication > Political aspects.

Table of Contents:

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.