War and the media : essays on news reporting, propaganda and popular culture /
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| Imprint: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009. |
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| Description: | vi, 259 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7848552 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: The Impact of War on Communication Theory, Research, and the Field of Communication
- The Editors
- Part I. Images in Popular Culture
- Protest Music as Alternative Media During the Vietnam War Era
- Created Heroes, Humanized Soldiers, and Superior Western Values: Fantasy Theme Analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
- Ghosts of Vietnam: Filmic Representations of Unconsummated American Heroism in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
- Drawn-Out Battles: Exploring War-Related Messages in Animated Cartoons
- Part II. Institutional Propaganda Messages
- Economic Convergence and the Celebration of Mass Production: The World War II Advertising Campaign to Sell Jeeps
- "You Boys and Girls Can Be the Minute Men of Today": Narrative Possibility and Normative Appeal in the U.S. Treasury's 1942 War Victory Comics
- Inspecting the Rhetorical Arsenal: The War Frame in Nazi Germany's der Kampf and America's War on Terror
- An Enduring Legacy of World War I: Propaganda, Journalism and the Domestic Struggle over the Commodification of Truth
- Part III. Effects of News Coverage
- Coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Business Magazines: The Profit and Economy of U.S. War and Policy
- "New Mexico's Always Been Patriotic and Loyal to the Country": Uncritical Journalistic Patriotism in Wartime
- Embedded Reporting and Audience Response: Parasocial Interaction and Perceived Realism in Embedded Reporting from the Iraq War on Television News
- Prince Harry and the Afghanistan Media Blackout
- Part IV. Future
- Cyberwar: The Future of War?
- About the Contributors
- Index
