The Resource Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
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The item Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media. Mirzoeff shows how the endless stream of images flowing from the Gulf has necessitated a new form of visual thinking, one which recognises that the war has turned images themselves into weapons. Drawing connections between the history and legend of ancient Babylon, the metaphorical Babylon of Western modernity, and everyday life in the modern suburb of Babylon, New York, Mirzoeff explores ancient concerns which have found new
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Watching Babylon: The war in Iraq and global visual culture; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Prologue: Babylonian modernity; Section 1: Babylon, Long Island; Section 2: The banality of images; Section 3: The empire of camps; Afterword: Afterimages; Notes and references; Index
- Isbn
- 9781134290963
- Label
- Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
- Title
- Watching Babylon
- Title remainder
- the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
- Subject
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- 2003-2011
- Babylon (Extinct city)
- Babylon (N.Y.)
- Electronic books
- Fernsehwirkung
- Irakkrieg
- Iraq
- Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war
- Mass media and war
- New York (State) -- Babylon
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- Visual communication
- Visual communication
- Visual sociology
- Visual sociology
- Kriegsberichterstattung
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media. Mirzoeff shows how the endless stream of images flowing from the Gulf has necessitated a new form of visual thinking, one which recognises that the war has turned images themselves into weapons. Drawing connections between the history and legend of ancient Babylon, the metaphorical Babylon of Western modernity, and everyday life in the modern suburb of Babylon, New York, Mirzoeff explores ancient concerns which have found new
- Cataloging source
- MERUC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas
- Dewey number
- 302.23
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- P96.W35
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Visual communication
- Visual sociology
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Babylon (Extinct city)
- Babylon (N.Y.)
- PSYCHOLOGY
- Mass media and war
- Visual communication
- Visual sociology
- Iraq
- Iraq
- New York (State)
- Irakkrieg
- Fernsehwirkung
- Kriegsberichterstattung
- Label
- Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Watching Babylon: The war in Iraq and global visual culture; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Prologue: Babylonian modernity; Section 1: Babylon, Long Island; Section 2: The banality of images; Section 3: The empire of camps; Afterword: Afterimages; Notes and references; Index
- Control code
- 817890712
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781134290963
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)817890712
- Label
- Watching Babylon : the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Watching Babylon: The war in Iraq and global visual culture; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Prologue: Babylonian modernity; Section 1: Babylon, Long Island; Section 2: The banality of images; Section 3: The empire of camps; Afterword: Afterimages; Notes and references; Index
- Control code
- 817890712
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781134290963
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)817890712
Subject
- 2003-2011
- Babylon (Extinct city)
- Babylon (N.Y.)
- Electronic books
- Fernsehwirkung
- Irakkrieg
- Iraq
- Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war
- Mass media and war
- New York (State) -- Babylon
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- Visual communication
- Visual communication
- Visual sociology
- Visual sociology
- Kriegsberichterstattung
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