Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering: The rhetorical uses of images of Iraqi children in the British press

Visual Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-71

  Wells, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childhood; children; images; Iraq; news; war

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997941664     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357207071465     Document Type: Article

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