AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 39Iconic Images of War on Terrorism - If we sensor images, then people forget/distort the truth of the past - Lack of representation prevents resistance to ongoing war on terrorism- Problem: when we don’t see what’s happening o Also dehumanizing and disrespectful when we do see the reality - Ethical issues: no one wants to see their loved ones body dead before they knew they were evendead- Visual Memory Problem-how the images circulate (where and when)9/11 Images- Pictures of people jumping off the building “The Falling Man”o Gravity pulling the people down to the ground o Horrifying moment- Pictures of people running away from smoky building with horror in their eyes - Distortion of Instrumentalization- Narrativationo Pic of family sitting in the park while smoke in backgroundo What story does this tell Framing the War- “What we see, how we see it, and what we do not see shapes our view of the world. Through visual framing, war photography shapes political lift”Politics of Images- George Bush with “Mission Accomplished” sign in the backgroundo Out of context, looks like the sign was for Bush but it was just ironically placed thereo Lots of controversy over sign - In Iraq War, American contractors cars were burned down and showed Americans the horror of the waro One of first time American bodies were represented at all o Americans hanging by rope off bridge surrounded by Iraq men These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Horrors of the warAccess to Images- Democratic rights of people to know- Soldiers who pied on dead bodies of Iraq peopleo Promote anti-americanismo Release of these images challenge the military and why it is doing what it is doing in the first place- Prison Images taken by perpetrators o Naked men Iconic Image of Hooded Man- Man standing on a box with a KKK hat covering his face- Staged torture - Wires attached to his hands - “The image achieves its power because it doesn’t show the human form laid bare and reduced to raw matter but creates an original images of inhumanity that admits no immediately self-evident reading.”- “The pose is obviously a deliberate stance”- Then, there is a picture of the photograph looking at his camera after he took pic while the man is still standing up o Visual material studieso Layering of screens iRaq- PARADOY - “our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country”- advertisements that go from an ipod to a bomb- visual campaign and shifting the purpose - bringing images into popular culture “There can be horrible images but war is horrible and we need to understand that”Dilemma- do you expose the images or
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