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Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994(Focus on American History Series)

Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994(Focus on American History Series)


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"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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Part I: There's a New Kid in Town 1. The Burning Bush 2. Reorienting 3. Crossing the Bridge 4. Ode to Abu Ammar 5. Gaza Slick 6. Photo Op 7. A Room with a View Part II: The Moment and the Mask 8. His Majesty 9. Let's Get Some Color 10. House of Hashem 11. Up, Up, and Away 12. Private Conversations (I) Part III: Passing Through 13. TWA Flight #847 14. Exile 15. Cruising 16. Caviar, Khat, and Cover Pix Part IV: Inside Terror, Inc. 17. Dance into Darkness 18. Journalists Are Used to Danger 19. He Who Builds 20. Private Conversations (II) 21. Promise Me I Won't Be Touched 22. Lebanon Part V: Travels in Sudan 23. Sorry, All Lines Are Jammed 24. Wau (Wow!) 25. I Don't Know What I'm Feeling 26. You Need Something to Peg the Story On Part VI: The Striptease 27. Everybody Must Get Stoned 28. Photo-Realism, the "Real" Picture, and the Ingathering 29. The Striptease Part VII: The Mother of All Battles 30. What the Hell Am I Doing? 31. The Sealed Room 32. The Striptease, Take 2 Epilogue 33. The Old Man 34. War on Another Front

About the Author :
Carol Spencer Mitchell (1954-2004) covered the Middle East and North Africa for many leading U.S. and European publications, including Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Look, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Ellen Spencer Susman, Carol's sister, served as Director of the US Department of State's Art in Embassies program during the Obama administration. She serves on the boards of various art museums, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Ellen resides in Houston, Texas.

Review :
"A deeply felt and moving account from an enterprising and conscientious news photographer who worked the always-busy beat of the Middle East in the last, great days of film photography." Rod Nordland, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Newsweek "Reading Danger Pay was a harrowing experience. Being a photojournalist on the front lines in the Middle East is no easy assignment. Writing about it with such vivid detail and thoughtful analysis is an equally impressive feat. This is a truly moving memoir in every way." Douglas Brinkley, Rice University, author of The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292718821
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 215
  • Sub Title: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
  • ISBN-10: 0292718829
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Focus on American History Series
  • Width: 152 mm


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