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1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: controversy and the crisis of the image / Feona Attwood, Vincent Campbell, I.Q. Hunter, & Sharon Lockyer -- Controversy and representation. Media-bodies and Photoshop / Meredith Jones -- Representation and resemblance in the case of the Danish cartoons / Catherine Collins & David Douglass -- Imitation and controversy: performing (trans)sexuality in Post-Communist Bulgaria / Plamena Kourtova -- X-ray visions: photography, propaganda and Guantanamo Bay / Bruce Bennett -- Constructing controversies. "The terrorists with highlights": Kurdish female suicide bombers in mainstream Turkish media / Ertug Altinay -- Constructing effects: disturbing images and the news construction of "media influence" in the Virginia Tech shootings / Jeremy Collins -- Border patrol: Trevor Brown, aesthetics and the protection of fictitious children / Adam Stapleton -- "The following content is not acceptable" / Julian Petley -- Ethics and aesthetics in controversial media -- Cutting edge: violence and body horror in anime / Caroline Ruddell -- "It's gonna hurt a little bit, but that's okay it makes my cock feel good": Max Hardcore and the myth of pleasure / Stephen Maddison -- The lexicon of offense: the meanings of torture, porn, and "torture porn" / Steve Jones -- The beast within: materiality, ethics and animal porn / Susanna Paasonen -- Engaging with controversial images. Embracing rape: understanding the attractions of exploitation movies / Martin Barker -- His soul shatters at about 0:23: Spankwire, self-scaring and hyberbolic shock / Julia Kennedy, and Clarissa Smith -- playing with controversial images in videogames: the terrorist mission controversy in "Call of duty: modern warfare 2" -- Vincent Campbell -- "A bad taste business": tv journalists reflect on the limits of news images / Paul Brighton. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Psychic trauma and mass media.
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Mass media -- Psychological aspects.
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Mass media -- Influence.
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Violence in mass media.
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Torture in mass media.
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Attwood, Feona, editor of compilation.
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Campbell, Vincent, 1971- editor of compilation.
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Hunter, I. Q., 1964- editor of compilation.
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Lockyer, Sharon, 1974- editor of compilation.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9780230284050 0230284051 (DLC) 2012041197 |
| ISBN |
9781137291998 (electronic bk.) |
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1137291990 (electronic bk.) |
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9780230284050 |
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0230284051 |
| OCLC # |
EBC1109227 |
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