The aestheticization of suffering on television

Visual Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-285

  Chouliaraki, Lilie ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

aestheticization; analytics of mediation; ethics; Iraq war footage; multimodal semiotics; pity; public sphere; sublime; television

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448963365     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357206068455     Document Type: Article

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