Introduction: Global humanitarianism and media culture – Michael Lawrence and Rachel TavernorPart I: Histories of humanity1 'United Nations children' in Hollywood cinema: Juvenile actors and humanitarian sentiment in the 1940s – Michael Lawrence2 Classical antiquity as humanitarian narrative: The Marshall Plan films about Greece – Katerina Loukopoulou3 ‘The most potent public relations tool ever devised’? The United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s – Agnieszka SobocinskaPart II: Narratives of humanitarianism4 The naive republic of aid: Grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir – Emily Bauman5 ‘Telegenically dead Palestinians’: Cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts – Shohini Chaudhuri 6 The Unknown Famine: Television and the politics of British humanitarianism – Andrew JonesPart III: Reporting refuge and risk7 European borderscapes: The management of migration between care and control – Pierluigi Musarò8 The role of aid agencies in the media portrayal of children in Za’atari refugee camp – Toby Fricker9 Selling the lottery to earn salvation: Journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication – Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel AndradePart IV: Capitalism, consumption and charity10 Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood – Laura Suski11 Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook: From starving children to satirical saviours – Rachel Tavernor12 The corporate karma carnival: Offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival – Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog OlwigIndex

Global humanitarianism and media culture interrogates various representations of humanitarian crisis, catastrophe and care. The collection explores the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms including screen media – film, television and online video – newspapers, memoirs, music festivals, and social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. The book explores the historical, cultural and political contexts that have shaped the mediation of humanitarian relationships since the middle of the twentieth century. Together, the contributions illustrate the continuities and connections, as well as the differences, which have characterised the mediatisation of both states of emergency and acts of amelioration. The authors reveal and explore the significant synergies between the humanitarian enterprise, the endeavour to alleviate the suffering of particular groups, and media representations and their modes of addressing and appealing to specific publics. The collection considers the ways in which media technologies and practices reflect and shape the moral, political, ethical, ideological and material dimensions of humanitarian intervention, and have become integral to the relationships between humanitarian organisations, institutions and individual actors.