Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History 1
6. Part I Humanitarian Imagery
7. 1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 41
8. 2 ‘Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors’ Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War 67
9. 3 Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921–65 90
10. 4 ‘People Who Once were Human Beings Like You and Me’ Why Allied Atrocity Films of Liberated Nazi Concentration Camps in 1944–46 Maximized the Horror and Universalized the Victims 107
11. 5 The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945–47 126
12. 6 The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 151
13. Part II Humanitarian Media Regimes
14. 7 On Fishing in Other People’s Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising and the Ethics of NGO Publicity 185
15. 8 Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s 201
16. 9 Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Work of Liberation 222
17. 10 Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany 240
18. 11 NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the ‘Ethiopian Famine’ 263
19. 12 The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action 281
20. Index 299