Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War

by John Taylor

Book Overview

What compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death?
In Body Horror, John Taylor addresses these questions by examining how the media presents unsettling pictures, especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782396
• ISBN13: 9780814782392
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"