Rethinking global security : media, popular culture, and the "War on terror" / edited by Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro. [print]

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0813538297
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0813538300
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JZ5588.R484 2006

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Introduction Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin Future-war storytelling : national security and popular film Doug Davis Visions of security : impermeable borders, impassable walls, impossible home/lands? / Mary N. Layoun The origins of the danger market Marcus Bullock Cold War redux Robert Ricigliano and Mike Allen Popular culture and narratives of insecurity Andrew Martin Fearful thoughts : U.S. television post 9/11 and the wars in Iraq Patricia Mellencamp Planet patrol : satellite imaging, acts of knowledge, and global security Lisa Parks Intermedia and the War on Terror James Castonguay Remapping the visual war on terrorism : "U.S. internationalism" and transnational citizenship Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola Picturing torture : Gulf wars past and present Tony Grajeda.

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Withdrawn	G. Allen Fleece Library Withdrawn	Non-fiction	JZ5588.R48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	WITHDRAWN Not for loan		31923001121215

Designed to promote strategic thinking about relationships between media, popular culture, and global security.

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 Back cover.

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