1. The Anxiety of the Image.
- Author
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Kear, Adrian
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ANXIETY , *PRISONERS of war , *MILITARY personnel , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
Investigates the mood of anxiety accompanying the public manifestation of images of prisoner abuse being conducted at the American occupied Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. Gap between verisimilitude and veracity opened up by the “Daily Mirror's” claim that the pictures accurately 'portrayed' serving soldiers' actions; Politics of attempting to further instrumentalize the images' performative effects; Nature of the response to the images of human rights abuses emanating from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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- 2005
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