A Struggle to Contextualize Photographic Images: American Print Media and the "Burning Monk.".

Skow, Lisa M.; Dionisopoulos, George N.

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ERIC Number: EJ571632

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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A Struggle to Contextualize Photographic Images: American Print Media and the "Burning Monk."

Skow, Lisa M.; Dionisopoulos, George N.

Communication Quarterly, v45 n4 p393-409 Fall 1997

Contributes to scholarship on the role of discursive rhetoric for providing a context for visual messages. Analyzes how the American print media, in the summer of 1963, contextualized M. Browne's photographs of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk's self-immolation in two competing frames of either religious oppression or a war for freedom against the communists. (SR)

Descriptors: Buddhism, Case Studies, Communication Research, Critical Viewing, Foreign Countries, Media Research, News Media, Photographs, Photojournalism, Religion, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, War

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Vietnam

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