Humanitarianism and media : introduction to an entangled history / Johannes Paulmann -- Humanitarian imagery -- Promoting distant children in need : Christian imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Katharina Stornig -- "Make the situation real to us without stressing the horrors" : children, photography and humanitarianism in the Spanish civil war / Rose Holmes -- Humanitarianism on the screen : the ICRC films, 1921-1965 / Daniel Palmieri -- "People who once were human beings like you and me" : why allied atrocity films of liberated nazi concentration camps in 1944-46 maximized the horror and universalized the victims / Ulrike Weckel -- The polemics of pity : British photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts -- The human gaze : photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner -- Humanitarian media regimes -- On fishing in other peoples ponds : the freedom from hunger campaign, international fundraising, and the ethics of ngo publicity / Heike Wieters -- Advocacy strategies of western humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valerie Gorin -- Humanitarianism and revolution : samed, the palestine red crescent society, and the work of liberation / Ilana Feldman -- Mediatisation of disasters and humanitarian aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger -- NGOs, celebrity humanitarianism, and the media : negotiating conflicting perceptions of aid and development during the "Ethiopian famine" / Matthias Kuhnert -- The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action / Maria Kyriakidou -- Index.