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