Bring 'em on : media and politics in the Iraq war /
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Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. |
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Description: | xix, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Communication, media, and politics |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5612057 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword : the Bush administration's march to war / Douglas Kellner
- Introduction / Yahya R. Kamalipour
- 1. Political legitimacy, cultural leadership, and public action / Lee Artz
- 2. Banal militarism and the culture of war / Tanja Thomas and Fabian Virchow
- 3. National security strategy and the ideology of preventive war / Elisia L. Cohen
- 4. Foreign policy, public diplomacy, and public relations : selling America to the world / Sue Curry Jansen
- 5. The problem with patriotism : steps toward the redemption of American journalism and democracy / Robert Jensen
- 6. Culture as persuasion : metaphor as weapon / William B. Hart II and Fran Hassencahl
- 7. The invisible ally : marketing Australia's war in Iraq / Andrew Jakubowicz and Liz Jacka
- 8. The construction of Arabs as enemies : post-9/11 discourse of George W. Bush / Debra Merskin
- 9. The political rhetoric of sacrifice and heroism and U.S. military intervention / Timothy Cole
- 10. "The great American bubble" : Fox News Channel, the "mirage" of objectivity, and the isolation of American public opinion / Adel Iskandar
- 11. Preemptive strikes on the cultural front : big radio, the Dixie Chicks, and homeland insecurity / Matthew A. Killmeier
- 12. The mass media, politics, and warfare / Christian Fuchs
- 13. Might makes right : news reportage as discursive weapon in the war in Iraq / Mike Gasher
- 14. Journalists embedded in culture : war stories as political strategy / Heinz Brandenburg
- 15. The power of public reporting : the independent media center's challenge to corporate media / Lisa Brooten.