Danger pay : memoir of a photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

著者

• Mitchell, Carol Spencer
• Susman, Ellen Spencer

書誌事項

Danger pay : memoir of a photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

by Carol Spencer Mitchell ; edited by Ellen Spencer Susman

（Focus on American history series）

University of Texas Press, 2008

• : cloth

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today's conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there. "You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, 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 "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-a conviction that eventually, as she says, "shattered [her] career." Although the events that Spencer Mitchell records took place decades 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.

目次

Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Part I: There's a New Kid in Town 1. The Burning Bush 2. Reorienting 3. Crossing the Bridge 4. Ode to Abu Ammar 5. Gaza Slick 6. Photo Op 7. A Room with a View Part II: The Moment and the Mask 8. His Majesty 9. Let's Get Some Color 10. House of Hashem 11. Up, Up, and Away 12. Private Conversations (I) Part III: Passing Through 13. TWA Flight #847 14. Exile 15. Cruising 16. Caviar, Khat, and Cover Pix Part IV: Inside Terror, Inc. 17. Dance into Darkness 18. Journalists Are Used to Danger 19. He Who Builds 20. Private Conversations (II) 21. Promise Me I Won't Be Touched 22. Lebanon Part V: Travels in Sudan 23. Sorry, All Lines Are Jammed 24. Wau (Wow!) 25. I Don't Know What I'm Feeling 26. You Need Something to Peg the Story On Part VI: The Striptease 27. Everybody Must Get Stoned 28. Photo-Realism, the "Real" Picture, and the Ingathering 29. The Striptease Part VII: The Mother of All Battles 30. What the Hell Am I Doing? 31. The Sealed Room 32. The Striptease, Take 2 Epilogue 33. The Old Man 34. War on Another Front

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB07870963
• ISBN:
  • 9780292718821
• LCCN: 2008012869
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Austin, Tex.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 167 p., [32] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DS36.65
  • DC22 : 956.05/3092
  • DC22 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Arab countries -- Description and travel
  • LCSH : Arab countries -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Mitchell, Carol Spencer, 1954-2004
  • LCSH : Photojournalists -- United States -- Biography
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA6248298X