TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spencer Mitchell,Carol
AU  - Carleton,Don
AU  - Spencer Susman,Ellen
AU  - Susman,Ellen Spencer
TI  - Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994 
T2  - Focus on American History Series
SN  - 9780292793828
U1  - 956.05/3092 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Photojournalists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; Part 1: There’s a New Kid in Town --; Part 2: The Moment and the Mask --; Part 3: Passing Through --; Part 4: Inside Terror, Inc. --; Part 5: Travels in Sudan --; Part 6: The Striptease --; Part 7: The Mother of All Battles --; Epilogue; restricted access
N2  - "You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her, a single, Jewish woman, to document the turmoil roiling the Arab world in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as how her experiences as a photojournalist "compelled [me] to set aside [my] cameras and reexamine the way images are created, scenes are framed, and how 'real life' is packaged for specific news stories." In Danger Pay, Spencer Mitchell takes us on a harrowing journey to PLO military training camps for Palestinian children and to refugee camps in the Gaza Strip before, during, and after the first intifada. Through her eyes, we experience the media frenzy surrounding the 1985 hijackings of TWA Flight #847 and the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. We meet Middle Eastern leaders, in particular Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan, with whom Spencer Mitchell developed close working relationships. And we witness Spencer Mitchell's growing conviction that the Western media's portrayal of conflicts in the Middle East actually helps to fuel those conflicts—a conviction that eventually, as she says, "shattered my career." Although the events that Spencer Mitchell records took place a generation ago, their repercussions reverberate in the conflicts going on in the Middle East today. Likewise, her concern about "the triumph of image over reality" takes on greater urgency as our knowledge of the world becomes ever more filtered by virtual media
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/718821
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793828
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793828/original
ER  -