{"product_id":"icons-of-war-and-terror","title":"Icons of War and Terror","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIcons of War and Terror\u003c\/em\u003e explores theories of iconic images of war and terror, not as received pieties but as challenging uncertainties; in doing so, it engages with both critical discourse and conventional image-making. The authors draw on these theories to re-investigate the media\/global context of some of the most iconic representations of war and terror in the international ‘risk society’. Among these photojournalistic images are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a naked girl, Kim Phuc, running burned from a napalm attack in Vietnam in June 1972; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea quintessential ‘ethnic cleansing’ image of massacred Kosovar Albanian villagers at Racak on January 15, 1999, which finally propelled a hesitant Western alliance into the first of the ‘new humanitarian wars’; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuis Simco’s photograph of marine James Blake Miller, ‘the Marlboro Man’, at Fallujah, Iraq, 2004; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe iconic toppling of the World Trade Centre towers in New York by planes on September 11, 2001; and the ‘Falling Man’ icon – one of the most controversial images of 9\/11; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe image of one of the authors of this book, as close-up victim of the 7\/7 terrorist attack on London, which the media quickly labelled iconic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students of media and war, sociology, communications studies, cultural studies, terrorism studies and security studies in general. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239460000088,"sku":"9780415698047","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415698047_e0dc79da-7ee4-46aa-85fb-d04b7c2b9805.jpg?v=1779858922","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/icons-of-war-and-terror","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}