Icons of War and Terror

<p>This book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror. </p><p><em>Icons of War and Terror</em> explores theories of iconic images of war and terror not as received pieties but as challenging uncertainties; in doing so it engages with both critical discourse and conventional image-making. The authors draw on these theories to re-investigate the media/global context of some of the most iconic representations of war and terror in the international ‘risk society’. Among these photojournalistic images are: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a naked girl Kim Phuc running burned from a napalm attack in Vietnam in June 1972; </li> <p> </p> <li>a quintessential ‘ethnic cleansing’ image of massacred Kosovar Albanian villagers at Racak on January 15 1999 which finally propelled a hesitant Western alliance into the first of the ‘new humanitarian wars’; </li> <p> </p> <li>Luis Simco’s photograph of marine James Blake Miller ‘the Marlboro Man’ at Fallujah Iraq 2004; </li> <p> </p> <li>the iconic toppling of the World Trade Centre towers in New York by planes on September 11 2001; and the ‘Falling Man’ icon – one of the most controversial images of 9/11; </li> <p> </p> <li>the image of one of the authors of this book as close-up victim of the 7/7 terrorist attack on London which the media quickly labelled iconic.</li> </ul><p>This book will be of great interest to students of media and war sociology communications studies cultural studies terrorism studies and security studies in general. </p>