Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Image operations: contours of the field -- Images, agency and ethics -- Image operations: an interdisciplinary project -- References -- Part I Using images: metaphors, processes, affects -- 1 Images of the world, images of conflict -- Diplomacy: kinship and religion -- The metaphor of the moving body -- From mental images to media images -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2 Worldmaking frame by frame -- Imaging modernity -- Showing photographers how to see -- Notes -- References -- 3 Working images -- Notes -- References -- Films and video works -- 4 Affective image operations -- Emotion and affect in political conflict -- Images and emotions -- Affective image operations and media practices: typologies and case studies -- Sensual symbolism -- Exhibition of evidence -- Visual narration -- Visual argumentation -- Spreadable intervisuality -- Note -- References -- Videos -- 5 Method, madness and montage -- References -- Films and video works -- Part II Images in warfare, insurgency and counterinsurgency -- 6 Image operations -- References -- 7 Sensorship -- The game-changing nature of drones and drone warfare -- A shady visuality -- Rhetorics of power -- Payload intimacy -- Sensorship, disturbed -- Notes -- References -- Videos -- 8 Images that last? -- Video sharing and war -- YouTube and Iraq -- Enter WikiLeaks and Collateral Murder -- References -- 9 Images of terror -- Image patterns -- Images that rupture the frame -- References -- 10 The making and gendering of a martyr -- The suicide bomber as video artist? -- The making of a martyr -- Gendering the martyr: images of Palestinian female suicide bombers since 2002 -- Unmaking the martyr? -- Notes -- References.

11 Photographic archives and archival entities -- Untaken, inaccessible and unshowable photographs -- Untaken photograph -- Inaccessible photograph -- Unshowable photograph -- Notes -- References -- Part III Image activism and political movements -- 12 Exposing the invisible -- Looking at the periphery: breaking down the Syrian conflict. Interview with Eliot Higgins -- Looking at what is in plain sight: The sea is mine. Interview with Rajwa -- Looking anew: seeing Jerusalem with new eyes. Interview with Hagit Keysar -- Looking beyond: uncovering hidden landscapes. Interview with James Bridle -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 13 Human rights in an age of distant witnesses -- Distant witnesses and remix image interventions -- Reincarnated images: circulation and reappropriation -- Live experience, co-presence and simultaneously distant and proximate witnessing -- Distant witnessing through the lens of reincarnation, remix and live -- Note -- References -- Videos -- 14 The hunger striker -- Notes -- References -- Films -- 15 The visual commons -- The photographic commons (1832-1953) -- From Resurrection City to Zuccotti Park -- Intersection with the future -- Note -- References -- Afterword -- What is the history of the interest in image operations? -- What is the place of aesthetics? -- Strong and weak interpretations of 'image operations' -- When are image operations more about operations than images? -- Is the analysis of image operations inherently biased? -- References -- Index -- Plate Section.

A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict.

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