Orientalism as news: Pictorial representations of the US attack on Iraq in Delo

Journalism

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 480-499

  Trivundza, Ilija Tomanic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Balkanization; Framing; Iraq; Orientalism; Photojournalism; War photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745823669     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884904044206     Document Type: Article

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