Watching Babylon - Couverture souple

Mirzoeff, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415343100 ISBN 13 : 9780415343107

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Watching Babylon Examining the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the Internet, in print media and in cinema, this book looks at the endless stream of images from Iraq while recognizing the way in which the war turned images themselves into weapons. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 resonance in the present day.

In the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Watching Babylon illuminates the Western experience of the Iraqi war and makes us re-examine the very way we look at images of conflict.

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape; Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), and the editor of The Visual Culture Reader (second edition 2002)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415343100
• ISBN 13: 9780415343107
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216