Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for
ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or …

Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy argues that scholars have remained
too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship …

Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key
debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is …

History and Geography is the first book for over a century to examine the full range of the
relations of history and geography. The distinguished scholar Alan Baker considers in turn …

In today's multimedia environment, visuals are essential and expected parts of storytelling.
However, the visual communication research field is fragmented into several sub-areas …

Thirty years after the fact, the Vietnam War continues to haunt the collective memory of the
United States. One of the primary embodiments of that haunting is the image of a naked girl …

Following research on depictions of the Persian Gulf War of 1991, this article discusses the
nature of US news-magazine photo coverage of the 'War on Terrorism'in Afghanistan and …

Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two
seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist …

Photographic images of war have been used to accentuate and lend authority to war
reporting since the early 20th century, with depictions in 1930s picture magazines of the …

This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism
deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks …