Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Icons of Outrage in International Crises

by David D. Perlmutter

David Perlmutter examines concerns over the interplay of pictures in the press, elite decision-making and public opinion on foreign policy. His focus is on certain celebrated, indelible images that, it is said, sum up famous events, provoke moral outrage, mobilize public opinion, and spur government action: the icons of outrage. Discourse elites thrust greatness upon such images as well as frame their meaning and interpretation. The public only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275958124
• ISBN13: 9780275958121
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"