{"product_id":"killing-for-show-julian-stallabrass-9781538141809","title":"Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq","description":"See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 video that shows it being destroyed. Some lives are ended--it is impossible to tell whose--so that the government can pretend that it taking effective action by creating a high-budget snuff movie. This is killing for show. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the Vietnam War the way we see conflict--through film, photographs, and pixels--has had a powerful impact on the political fortunes of the campaign, and the way that war has been conducted. In this fully illustrated and passionately argued account of war imagery, Julian Stallabrass tells the story of post-war conflict, how it was recorded and remembered through its iconic photography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe relationship between war and photograph is constantly in transition, forming new perspectives, provoking new challenges: what is allowed to be seen? Does an image have the power to change political opinion? How are images used to wage war? Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda--from close-quarters fighting to the drone's electronic vision--as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough these accounts Stallabrass maps a comprehensive theoretical re-evaluation of the relationship between war, politics and visual culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKilling for Show offers: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e190 photographs encompassing photojournalism, artists' images, photographs by soldiers and amateurs and drones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA comprehensive comparison of the role of photography in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn explanation of the waning power of iconic images in collective memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn analysis of the failure of military PR and the public display of killing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA focus on what can and cannot be seen, photographed and published\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn exploration of the power and limits of amateur photography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArguments about how violent images act on democracy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThis full-color book is an essential volume in the history of warfare and photography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Stallabrass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1538141809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781538141809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.10h x 8.60w x 1.10d","brand":"Julian Stallabrass","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43978503127295,"sku":"9781538141809","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4542d2be-88c9-488c-90af-5b3ac4bec964.jpg?v=1683241905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/killing-for-show-julian-stallabrass-9781538141809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}