Death makes the news : : how the media censor and display the dead / / Jessica M. Fishman.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : New York University Press,, [2017] 2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Death concealed: the picture problem
- "Cold bodies are hot stuff"
- Alternative images
- The industry's ample access
- Intentionally ambiguous images
- Layers of resistance
- Word versus image
- Death revealed: exceptions to the rule
- Pictures in the popular and patrician press
- Nationality and the "newsworthy" image
- Innocence and the "newsworthy" victim
- Mass tragedy and the biggest disasters
- The fantastic feats of some photos
- Victims seeking visibility
- In the end
- Appendix: defining a postmortem picture
- Notes
- Index
- About the author.