War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict

by Milena Michalski and James Gow

This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare?

The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the images of beheadings on the internet; the emaciated figure in a Bosnian-Serb concentration camp; the dancing flashes across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415401011
• ISBN13: 9780415401012
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"