The aestheticization of suffering on television
@article{Chouliaraki2006TheAO,
title={The aestheticization of suffering on television},
author={Lilie Chouliaraki},
journal={Visual Communication},
year={2006},
volume={5},
pages={261 - 285}
}This article analyses an example of war footage in order to trace the ways in which the tension between presenting airwar as an `objective' piece of news and as an instance of intense human suffering is resolved in television's strategies of mediation. The bombardment of Baghdad in 2003 during the Iraq war was filmed in long-shot and presented in a quasi-literary narrative that capitalized on an aesthetics of horror, on sublime spectacle (Boltanski). The aestheticization of suffering on… Expand
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