A Century of Media, a Century of War

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Peter Lang, 2006 - 350 páginas
Forged over the course of a century, the connections between war and media run long and deep. As this book reveals, the history of war and its telling has been a battle over public perception. The selection of which stories are told and which are ignored helps justify past battles and ensure future wars. Narratives of protest and pain, defeat and suffering, guilt and abuse struggle to be heard amid the empowering myths of war and heroism.
As Robin Andersen argues, the history of struggle between war and its representation has changed the way war is fought and the way we tell the stories of war. Information management, once called censorship and propaganda, has developed in tandem with new media technologies. Now, digital imaging creates virtual battlefields as computer-based technologies transform the weapons of war. Along the way, images on the nightly news, on movie screens, and in video games have turned war into entertainment. In the grip of virtual war, it is difficult to realize the loss of compassion or the consequences for democracy.
 

Contenido

From the First Draft to the Grand Narrative
19
Remembering the Forgotten
35
Shattered Illusions
47
Part II
67
EntebbeStyle Rescue or
119
The War Hero and the Scandal
129
Dover Air Force Base Press Pools and the Panama Invasion
147
Trading the First Amendment to Defeat
155
From Tragedy to War after 911
197
Embeds and Militainment
227
Of Smart Weapons Civilian Casualties and the Crimes
259
The EntertainerinChief and
279
Notes
319
References
331
Index
341
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24 Hours of War
185

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The Author: Robin Andersen is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Fordham University. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine. Her writings appear in numerous book chapters and journal articles, and she is the author of Consumer Culture and TV Programming (1995) and co-editor of Critical Studies in Media Commercialism (2000).

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