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Summary:

Abstract: From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today's NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.

Table of Contents:

• Humanitarianism and media : introduction to an entangled history / Johannes Paulmann
• Humanitarian imagery
• Promoting distant children in need : Christian imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Katharina Stornig
• "Make the situation real to us without stressing the horrors" : children, photography and humanitarianism in the Spanish civil war / Rose Holmes
• Humanitarianism on the screen : the ICRC films, 1921-1965 / Daniel Palmieri
• "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 / Ulrike Weckel
• The polemics of pity : British photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts
• The human gaze : photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner
• Humanitarian media regimes
• On fishing in other peoples ponds : the freedom from hunger campaign, international fundraising, and the ethics of ngo publicity / Heike Wieters
• Advocacy strategies of western humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valerie Gorin
• Humanitarianism and revolution : samed, the palestine red crescent society, and the work of liberation / Ilana Feldman
• Mediatisation of disasters and humanitarian aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger
• NGOs, celebrity humanitarianism, and the media : negotiating conflicting perceptions of aid and development during the "Ethiopian famine" / Matthias Kuhnert
• The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action / Maria Kyriakidou
• Index.

Contributors:

Paulmann, Johannes , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

New German historical perspectives; v. 9

Subjects:

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism — In mass media

Mass media

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 entries) : 31 images.

Call Numbers:

BJ1475.3 .H857 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781787858664 (electronic version)
9781785339615 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1785339613 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9781785339622 (electronic bk.) [Invalid]
1785339621 (electronic bk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1257527043

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00568788 (source: CaBNVSL)
berbham2019 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781787858664