Beyond the Checkpoint
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911 visual culture
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airport security graphics
American citizenship after 911
American perception of security
American state and visual narratives
and spectatorship
audience engagement with war visuals
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citizenship and media literacy
citizenship and visual media
civic identity in wartime media
cultural studies of terrorism
domestic effects of GWOT
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ethics of visual representation
film portrayals of 911
Global War on Terror imagery
graphic representation of violence
images and political legitimacy
images shaping citizenship
images shaping public perception
institutional regulation of images
media and American identity
media and national security
mediated experiences of conflict
memorials and public memory
memory and national trauma
methodologies for analyzing visual culture
militarized spectatorship
photography and surveillance
post-911 visual discourse
propaganda and media consumption
public engagement with conflict imagery
representations of suffering and terror
representations of terrorism
security footage analysis
spectatorship and civic identity
surveillance culture and society
terror representation in media
violence
visual archives of 911
visual culture of conflict
visual methodology in conflict studies
visual narratives of contemporary warfare
visual politics of war
visual storytelling in modern warfare
visuality and citizenship formation
war
war and media studies
war imagery and cultural memory
war imagery and policy
Product details
- ISBN 9781625340702
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 177 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2014
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, American citizenship has been redefined by the visual images associated with the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Rebecca A. Adelman contends that, in viewing images such as security footage of the 9/11 hijackers, film portrayals of the attacks and subsequent wars, memorials commemorating the attacks, and even graphics associated with increased security in airports, American citizens have been recast as militarised spectators, brought together through the production, circulation, and consumption of these visual artifacts. Beyond the Checkpoint reveals that the visual is essential to the prosecution of the GWOT domestically and abroad, and that it functions as a crucial mechanism in the ongoing formation of the U.S. state itself and an essential component of contemporary American citizenship.
Tracing the connections between citizenship and spectatorship, and moving beyond the close reading of visual representations, this book focuses on the institutions and actors that create, monitor, and regulate the visual landscape of the GWOT. Adelman looks around and through common images to follow the complex patterns of practise by which institutions and audiences engage them in various contexts. In the process, she proposes a new methodology for studying visual cultures of conflict, and related phenomena like violence, terror, and suffering that are notoriously difficult to represent.
Attending to previously unanalysed dimensions of this conflict, this book illustrates the complexity of GWOT visual culture and the variegated experiences of citizenship that result as Americans navigate this terrain.
Tracing the connections between citizenship and spectatorship, and moving beyond the close reading of visual representations, this book focuses on the institutions and actors that create, monitor, and regulate the visual landscape of the GWOT. Adelman looks around and through common images to follow the complex patterns of practise by which institutions and audiences engage them in various contexts. In the process, she proposes a new methodology for studying visual cultures of conflict, and related phenomena like violence, terror, and suffering that are notoriously difficult to represent.
Attending to previously unanalysed dimensions of this conflict, this book illustrates the complexity of GWOT visual culture and the variegated experiences of citizenship that result as Americans navigate this terrain.
Rebecca A. Adelman is assistant professor of media and communication studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
