Spectacular ethics:On the television footage of the Iraq war

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 143-159

  Chouliaraki, Lilie ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aesthetic representation; Analytics of mediation; Iraq war; Multi modality; Regime of pity; Television footage

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248031149     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.4.1.07cho     Document Type: Article

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