Titlebook: Controversial Images; Media Representation Feona Attwood,Vincent Campbell,Sharon Lockyer Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

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Media-Bodies and Photoshop — the ex-husband, the child who became a criminal, the awful handbag. Photographic imagery is made from what lurks outside the frame as much as by what is contained within it. And yet, photography’s own mythology tells a different story: that something complete has been captured. Even as we know th

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Representation and Resemblance in the Case of the Danish Cartoonsng the autumn of 2005 proved difficult to understand. Interviews conducted by the BBC evoked characterizations of the crisis as ‘ridiculous,’ and ‘absolutely too much’ (Buchanan 2006), and an American columnist confessed to being ‘perplexed’ at what he considered to be the ‘gross overreaction by ave

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Imitation and Controversy: Performing (Trans)Sexuality in Post-Communist Bulgariaasil Levsky,. became the source of controversy. The billboard advertised a new single by the pop-folk singer, Azis. A campaign by intellectuals and pop music performers called for it to be removed because of the provocative appearance of the singer, dressed in a woman’s corset that accentuated his l

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X-Ray Visions: Photography, Propaganda and Guantánamo Bayave come to communicate not merely the technical processes by which the US military detains selected prisoners of war, but the relationship of the USA with the rest of the world, a visual rendering of power — cultural, imperial, military, legal and physical. Despite careful control of access to the

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Constructing Effects: Disturbing Images and the News Construction of ‘media influence’ in the Virginin the midst of a shooting spree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in April 2007 which left 32 dead, he provided them with pictures which were particularly controversial. These were the planned and orchestrated self-representations of a mass murderer, and were th

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Border Patrol: Trevor Brown, Aesthetics and the Protection of Fictitious Childrenns landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the tw

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‘The Following Content is Not Acceptable’ession given by the board itself, which states that ‘adults should, as far as possible, be free to choose what they see, provided that it remains within the law and is not potentially harmful’ (BBFC 2009a: 4) and that ‘in line with the consistent findings of the BBFC’s public consultations and the H

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