Rethinking global security : media, popular culture, and the "War on terror" /
Rethinking global security : media, popular culture, and the "War on terror" / [print]
edited by Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2006.
- x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Designed to promote strategic thinking about relationships between media, popular culture, and global security.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction Future-war storytelling : national security and popular film Visions of security : impermeable borders, impassable walls, impossible home/lands? / Mary N. Layoun -- The origins of the danger market Cold War redux Popular culture and narratives of insecurity Fearful thoughts : U.S. television post 9/11 and the wars in Iraq Planet patrol : satellite imaging, acts of knowledge, and global security Intermedia and the War on Terror Remapping the visual war on terrorism : "U.S. internationalism" and transnational citizenship Picturing torture : Gulf wars past and present Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin -- Doug Davis -- Marcus Bullock -- Robert Ricigliano and Mike Allen -- Andrew Martin -- Patricia Mellencamp -- Lisa Parks -- James Castonguay -- Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola -- Tony Grajeda.
Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become impossible to separate politics of war, suffering, terrorism, and security from the practices and processes of the media. This book brings together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the internet. The contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, show both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities, to the role that television programming plays as an interpretative frame for current events --
9780813538297 9780813538303
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Security, International.
Terrorism and mass media.
Popular culture.
JZ5588.P497.R484 2006
Designed to promote strategic thinking about relationships between media, popular culture, and global security.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction Future-war storytelling : national security and popular film Visions of security : impermeable borders, impassable walls, impossible home/lands? / Mary N. Layoun -- The origins of the danger market Cold War redux Popular culture and narratives of insecurity Fearful thoughts : U.S. television post 9/11 and the wars in Iraq Planet patrol : satellite imaging, acts of knowledge, and global security Intermedia and the War on Terror Remapping the visual war on terrorism : "U.S. internationalism" and transnational citizenship Picturing torture : Gulf wars past and present Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin -- Doug Davis -- Marcus Bullock -- Robert Ricigliano and Mike Allen -- Andrew Martin -- Patricia Mellencamp -- Lisa Parks -- James Castonguay -- Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola -- Tony Grajeda.
Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become impossible to separate politics of war, suffering, terrorism, and security from the practices and processes of the media. This book brings together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the internet. The contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, show both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities, to the role that television programming plays as an interpretative frame for current events --
9780813538297 9780813538303
2005024638
Security, International.
Terrorism and mass media.
Popular culture.
JZ5588.P497.R484 2006