Death makes the news : how the media censor and display the dead / Jessica M. Fishman.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Death concealed: the picture problem
"Cold bodies are hot stuff"
Alternative images
The industry's ample access
Intentionally ambiguous images
Layers of resistance
Word versus image
Death revealed: exceptions to the rule
Pictures in the popular and patrician press
Nationality and the "newsworthy" image
Innocence and the "newsworthy" victim
Mass tragedy and the biggest disasters
The fantastic feats of some photos
Victims seeking visibility
In the end
Appendix: defining a postmortem picture
Notes
Index
About the author.