Global humanitarianism and media culture / / edited by Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor.
This collection interrogates the representation of humanitarian crisis, catastrophe and care. Contributors explore the refraction of humanitarian intervention from the mid-twentieth century to the present across a diverse range of media forms, including screen media (film, television and online vide...
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| Superior document: | Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Humanitarianism (Series)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : global humanitarianism and media culture / Michael Lawrence and Rachel Tavernor
- 'United Nations children' in Hollywood cinema : juvenile actors and humanitarian sentiment in the 1940s / Michael Lawrence
- Classical antiquity as humanitarian narrative : the Marshall Plan films about Greece / Katerina Loukopoulou
- 'The most potent public relations tool ever devised'? The United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s / Agnieszka Sobocinska
- The naive republic of aid : grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir / Emily Bauman
- 'Telegenically dead Palestinians' : cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts / Shohini Chaudhuri
- The Unknown Famine : television and the politics of British humanitarianism / Andrew Jones
- European borderscapes : the management of migration between care and control / Pierluigi Musarò
- The role of aid agencies in the media portrayal of children in Za'atari refugee camp / Toby Fricker
- Selling the lottery to earn salvation : journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel Andrade
- Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood / Laura Suski
- Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook : from starving children to satirical saviours / Rachel Tavernor
- The corporate karma carnival : offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival / Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog Olwig.