Death Makes The News: How The Media Censor And Display The Dead

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

• | Author: Jessica M. Fishman
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Photography
• | ISBN-10: 0814760457
• | ISBN-13: 9780814760451