Danger pay : memoir of a photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994 / by Carol Spencer Mitchell ; edited by Ellen Spencer Susman.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Focus on American history seriesالناشر:Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2008الطبعات:1st edوصف:xiii, 167 pages, [32] pages of plates : ill (chiefly color) ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780292718821 (hbk)
- 0292718829 (hbk)
- DS36.65 M58 2008
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS36.65 M58 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011135119 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS36.65 M58 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011135118 |
"In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Carol Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her - a single, Jewish woman - to document the turmoil roiling the Arab world in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as how her experiences as a photojournalist compelled her to set aside her cameras and reexamine the way images are created, scenes are framed, and how "real life" is packaged for specific news stories." "In Danger Pay, Spencer Mitchell takes us on a harrowing journey to PLO military training camps for Palestinian children and to refugee camps in the Gaza Strip before, during, and after the first intifada. Through her eyes, we experience the media frenzy surrounding the 1985 hijackings of TWA Flight #847 and the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. We meet Middle Eastern leaders, in particular Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan, with whom Spencer Mitchell developed close working relationships. And we witness Spencer Mitchell's growing conviction that the Western media's portrayal of conflicts in the Middle East actually helps to fuel those conflicts." "Although the events that Spencer Mitchell records took place a generation ago, their repercussions reverberate in the Middle Eastern conflicts of today. Likewise, her concern about "the triumph of image over reality" takes on greater urgency as our knowledge of the world becomes ever more filtered by virtual media."--BOOK JACKET.