Televising War

Andrew Hoskins is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK

"British intellectual Andrew Hoskins' new book Televising War is a must read. Hoskins' study of television's dependence on the image as its bread and butter provides a nuanced analysis of the recent shift in public opinion regarding Iraq. Televising War provides a considered, measured dissection as a rebuke to T.V.'s sensationalism" - New York Press, 6/21/04 - 6/27/04

• 1. Conflicts of memory in a media age; New memory; Media flashframes; Gulf Wars and media history; An ethics of viewing; 2. From Vietnam to the Gulf - re-visions of war; The journalistic context of vietnam; Photographic memory - vietnam and the Gulf War; The Gulf War; Living memories versus media memories; Media templates - vietnam to the Gulf War; Media templates - Gulf War to the Iraq war; 3. Reality TV; Iraq War - new propoganda, visions of speed and proximity; American visions; Critical discourse; Overexposure; 4. Bodies Fallen in time - the resonance of battle; Anonymous corpse - the Jarecke image; Covering the body; The seen unseen; Remembering Al-Amiriya; Showing or saving bodies - the ethics of intervention; Fading images; 5. The Real Saddam? Moster or misjudged; Guest's news; The old Saddam; From Hitler to Inspector Clouseau; Searching for Sadam; 6. The collapse of memory; Shared visions; Eyewitnesses in the line of fire; The collapse of memory