TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirzoeff,Nicholas
TI  - Watching Babylon: the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
SN  - 9781134290963
AV  - P96.W35 
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Visual sociology
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Mass media and the war
KW  - Communication visuelle
KW  - Sociologie visuelle
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mass media and war
KW  - fast
KW  - Golfkrieg
KW  - 2003
KW  - gnd
KW  - Fernsehwirkung
KW  - Kriegsberichterstattung
KW  - Babylon (Extinct city)
KW  - Babylon (N.Y.)
KW  - Babylone (Ville ancienne)
KW  - Iraq
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Babylon
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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