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.

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)

• 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