Cloning Terror - The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of fourteen previous books, including What Do Pictures Want? , winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. He is also editor of the journal Critical Inquiry . Klappentext The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.

Product details

• Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780226532608
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53260-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, ART / American / General, Terrorism, armed struggle, United States of America, USA, Art forms, The Arts: art forms