Seeing Through the Media

The Persian Gulf War

AvSusan Jeffords,Lauren Rabinovitz

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Del i serien Communications, Media, and Culture Series

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Beskrivning

The New Republic airbrushed a Hitler mustache on Saddam Hussein. CNN reporters described the bombing of Baghdad as "fireworks on the Fourth of July." The Pentagon fed prepackaged programs to the TV networks. Veiled Arab women became icons of an exotic culture. These are some of the ways the media brought home the war in the Persian Gulf as a national spectacle. Looking to old and new technologies for mass communication-from CNN to comic books, from international news agencies to tabloids, from bomb sights to the Super Bowl-the essays in this collection show the ways in which public information is shaped, packaged, and disseminated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-05-01
Mått:153 x 25 x 30 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Communications, Media, and Culture Series
Antal sidor:277
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813520421

Utforska kategorier

Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Susan Jeffords is the director of Women's Studies and a professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era (Rutgers University Press) and The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War.Lauren Rabinovitz is an associate professor of American Studies and Film Studies at the University of Iowa and the author of Points of Resistence: Women, Power ,and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema.

Recensioner i media

An important and timely collection that exposes the breadth and depth of the media manipulation threatening U.S. democracy. - Douglas Kellner (University of Texas at Austin)

Innehållsförteckning

From realism to virtual reality : images of America's wars / H. Bruce FranklinImages of the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars in U.S. television / Daniel C. HallinKicking the Vietnam syndrome : CNN's and CBS's video narratives of the Persian Gulf War / Michelle KendrickThe Gulf War as total television / Tom EngelhardtTime and the television war / Victor J. CaldarolaThe International media and the Persian Gulf War : the importance of the flow of news / Holly Cowan ShulmanSite unseen : an analysis of CNN's war in the gulf / Mimi WhiteThe media's war / Ella ShohatOperation Desert Comfort / Dana L. CloudMissiles and melodrama (masculinity and the televisual war) / Robyn WiegmanSoap opera woes : genre, gender, and the Persian Gulf War / Lauren RabinovitzThe gendered gulf / Cynthia EnloeSupermarket tabloids and Persian Gulf War dissent / Leonard RifasPerspectives on the Persian Gulf War in popular black magazines / Venise T. Berry and Kim E. KarloffMilitary presences and absences : Arab women and the Persian Gulf War / Therese SalibaOnly the guns have eyes : military censorship and the body count / Margot NorrisAfterword : Bringing the death-world home / Susan JeffordsA Persian Gulf War chronology