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Author Zelizer, Barbie.

Title About to die : how news images move the public / Barbie Zelizer
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 415 pages)
Contents Journalism, memory and the voice of the visual -- Why images of impending death makes sense in the news -- Presumed death -- Possible death -- Certain death -- Journalism's mix of presumption, possibility and certainty -- When the "as if" erases accountability -- How news images move the public
Summary An analysis of about-to-die images in 19th, 20th and 21st century U.S. journalism, with some discussion of news images elsewhere, raises fundamental questions both about how these pictures depict the news, how they figure in collective memory and how they connect with the public at multiple points in time. In so doing, it suggests a refinement of how news images have been thought to function and how the public has been thought to respond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Photojournalism -- Social aspects -- United States
Death -- Press coverage -- United States
Collective memory -- United States
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photojournalism.
Collective memory
Death -- Press coverage
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010012024
ISBN 9780199780815
0199780811
1282880950
9781282880955
9786612880957
6612880953