TY - BOOK AU - Winter,Charlie TI - The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197683521 AV - DS98.6 U1 - 956.9104238 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - IS (Organization) KW - War photography KW - Syria KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Terrorism and mass media KW - ukslc KW - Asian history KW - thema KW - Civil War, 2011- KW - Propaganda KW - Photography N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The summer of 2014 - when the Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq's second city; captured vast swathes of eastern Syria; and declared itself a latter-day Caliphate - marked a turning point in the history of photography, one that pushed its already contested relationship with reality to its very limits. Uniquely obsessed with narrative, image management and branding, the Islamic State used cameras as weapons in its formative years as a Caliphate. Based on a deep examination of images collected from the Islamic State's covert networks, this book explores the process by which the Caliphate shook the foundations of modern war photography UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197659663.001.0001 ER -