Bring 'Em On

Lee Artz is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. Yahya R. Kamalipour is professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet.

...Provides carefully documented analysis, in chapters that stand both as self-contained studies and as building blocks in a multifaceted explanation as to how the media and public culture prepared the American public for the untested policy of so-called preventive war.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1 Political Legitimacy, Cultural Leadership, and Public ActionChapter 4 2 Banal Militarism and the Culture of WarChapter 5 3 National Security Strategy and the Ideology of Preventive WarChapter 6 4 Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, and Public Relations: Selling America to the WorldChapter 7 5 The Problem with Patriotism: Steps Toward the Redemption of American Journalism and DemocracyChapter 8 6 Culture as Persuasion: Metaphor as WeaponChapter 9 7 The Invisible Ally: Marketing Australia's War in IraqChapter 10 8 The Construction of Arabs as Enemies: Post-9/11 Discourse of George W. BushChapter 11 9 The Political Rhetoric of Sacrifice and Heroism and U.S. Military InterventionChapter 12 10 'The Great American Bubble': Fox News Channel, the 'Mirage' of Objectivity and the Isolation of American Public OpinionChapter 13 11 Pre-emptive Strikes on the Cultural Front: Big Radio, the Dixie Chicks, and Homeland InsecurityChapter 14 12 The Mass Media, Politics, and WarfareChapter 15 13 Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapon in the War in IraqChapter 16 14 Journalists Embedded in Culture: War Stories as Political StrategyChapter 17 15 The Power of Public Reporting: The Independent Media Center's Challenge to Corporate MediaChapter 18 Suggested Readings