Death Makes the News : : How the Media Censor and Display the Dead /

Death Makes the News : : How the Media Censor and Display the Dead / / Jessica M. Fishman.

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Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social InteractionWinner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt AwardA behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the mediaDeath is considered...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Fishman, Jessica M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 67 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Death Concealed: The Picture Problem
  • 2. Alarming Images
  • 3. Alternative Images
  • 4. Industry Access
  • 5. Intentional Ambiguity
  • 6. Layers of Resistance
  • 7. Word versus Image
  • Part II: Death Depicted: Exceptions to the Rule
  • 8. Pictures in the Popular and Patrician Press
  • 9. Nationality and the “Newsworthy” Image
  • 10. Innocence and the “Newsworthy” Image
  • 11. Mass Tragedy and the “Newsworthy” Image
  • 12. The Fantastic Feats of a Few Photos
  • 13. Victims Seeking Visibility
  • 14. In the End
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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