Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq

by Julian Stallabrass

See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion.

In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck which may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. This was a lethal form of gesture politics: to send a 9-million bomber from Cyprus to Iraq and back, burning 35,000 an hour in fuel, to launch a smart missile costing 100,000 to destroy a truck or, rather, to create a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538141809
• ISBN13: 9781538141809
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 11.1"