Seeing Through the Media

by Jeffords, Susan; Rabinovitz, Lauren

• ISBN13: 9780813520421
• ISBN10: 0813520428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Sixteen essays on the Gulf War that analyze the ways in which the internal imperatives of government, the military, and the media interacted to shape and distort events.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars	p. 25
Images of the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars in U.S. Television	p. 45
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome: CNN's and CBS's Video Narratives of the Persian Gulf War	p. 59
The Gulf War as Total Television	p. 81
Time and the Television War	p. 97
The International Media and the Persian Gulf War: The Importance of the Flow of News	p. 107
Site Unseen: An Analysis of CNN's War in the Gulf	p. 121
The Media's War	p. 147
Operation Desert Comfort	p. 155
Missiles and Melodrama (Masculinity and the Televisual War)	p. 171
Soap Opera Woes: Genre, Gender, and the Persian Gulf War	p. 189
The Gendered Gulf	p. 211
Supermarket Tabloids and Persian Gulf War Dissent	p. 229
Perspectives on the Persian Gulf War in Popular Black Magazines	p. 249
Military Presences and Absences: Arab Women and the Persian Gulf War	p. 263
Only the Guns Have Eyes: Military Censorship and the Body Count	p. 285
Afterword: Bringing the Death-World Home	p. 301
A Persian Gulf War Chronology	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 323
Notes on Contributors	p. 333
Index	p. 337
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