Constructing America's War Culture Iraq, Media, and Images at Home

by Conroy, Thomas; Hanson, Jarice; Wong, Kokkeong; Conroy, Thomas M.; Israel, Bill; Klenotic, Jeffrey; Gardner, Thomas N.; Chase, Gordon; Abbott, Rebecca L.

• ISBN13: 9780739119631
• ISBN10: 073911963X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-26
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In 1927, political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote about the strategies employed by the American government to sell the benefits of participating in World War I to a reluctant public. In Propaganda Techniques in World War I, Lasswell discussed the "manipulative symbols to manipulate opinions and attitudes." Ever since then, all wars have involved specialists who attempt to control the way the media report about war and the way media contribute to shaping public opinion.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Kokkeong Wong	p. 1
Constructions of War
Freedom of Expression and Voices of War: Blogging as an Alternative to Mainstream Media	p. 15
What Happened to Journalism?	p. 33
Selling the Bush Doctrine: Persuasion, Propaganda, Public Relations, and the Patriot Act	p. 47
Iraq, Media, and Images at Home
The Packaging of Jessica Lynch	p. 61
Staying in the Moment: Hollywood, History, and the Politics of 9/11 Cinema	p. 85
War As Mediated Narrative: The Sextet of War Rhetoric	p. 107
Images of America at War on the Internet Newsgroup: soc.culture.europe	p. 127
The War Doesn't End Until the Last Soldier Dies: Transmedial Narratives of War	p. 145
Selected Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 163
About the Authors	p. 169
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