Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1092554
Has ISIS Gone Hollywood? Visual Strategies and Images of Destruction in ISIS’s Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah
Has ISIS Gone Hollywood? Visual Strategies and Images of Destruction in ISIS’s Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah // Ikon, 11 (2018), 223-238 doi:10.1484/J.IKON.4.2018024 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Has ISIS Gone Hollywood?
Visual Strategies and Images of Destruction in
ISIS’s Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah
Autori
Munk, Ana
Izvornik
Ikon (1846-8551) 11
(2018);
223-238
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni
Ključne riječi
Dabiq, Rumiyah, ISIS, visual identity, propaganda, Western audience
Sažetak
Images of the destruction of world heritage carried out by the Islamic State have been widely disseminated through social media and by ISIS itself in order to draw attention to its cause. However, the content of the ISIS on-line magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah published by the ISIS official media center al-Hayat has rarely been discussed outside the specialized circles of war and counterterrorist experts. This paper focuses on the visual identity of these magazines by analyzing cover pages and selected lead images of feature articles in an attempt to answer the following questions: What kind of visual identity is created in these publications and how successful are they as examples of modern visual propaganda addressing a Western audience? Visual referencing to horror and action movie posters, broadcasting graphics and art photography creates a varied visual environment while the abundance of visual content and the professional quality of the graphic design strive to be on a par with the production standards and visual communication strategies found in Western news publications. A deeper analysis shows that the visual content, while allying with the ISIS general message, shows a great degree of misunderstanding of Western modernity resulting in an inconsistent, hybrid and hit-and-miss product. As a broadly-cast recruitment net, Dabiq and Rumiyah address a multi-national and multi-ethnic audience putting forward a high- quality political project, but they fall short because their tightly-controlled fantasy imagery leaves no room for creative experimentation within the existing and well- established modes of representations.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti
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- Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- Scopus
