Watching Babylon: the war in Iraq and global visual culture

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Examining the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the Internet, in print media and in cinema, this book looks at the endless stream of images from Iraq while recognizing the way in which the war turned images themselves into weapons.

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Full title :Watching Babylon : the war in Iraq and global visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:203 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415343097, 9780415343091, 0415343100, 9780415343107
oclc:ocm60792960
LC Classification:HM500
Dewey Decimal:302.23

Prologue : Babylonian modernity -- Babylon, Long Island -- The banality of images -- The empire of camps -- Afterword : afterimages.

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05.30 mass communication and mass media… 89.83 warfare Babylon (Extinct city) Babylon (N.Y.) Babylone (Ville ancienne) Communication visuelle Fernsehwirkung Golfkrieg Golfoorlog (2003) Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 -- Médias et … Irakkrieg Iraq Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city) Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and t… Kriegsberichterstattung Mass media and war Massamedia New York (State) -- Babylon Sociologie visuelle Visual communication