War and the Media

by Haridakis, Paul M.

• ISBN13: 9780786446070
• ISBN10: 0786446072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-31
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers of those images. But this book looks beyond the obvious. The contributors examine historical and contemporary examples that reflect the role of the media or mass communication or both during wartime. The essays highlight the centrality of communication to the perpetuation and to the resolution of war, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between communication and war is as important to understand as war itself.

Author Biography

Paul M. Haridakis is an associate professor at Kent State University. He lives in Akron, Ohio. Barbara Hugenberg is an assistant professor at Kent State University. She lives in Kent, Ohio. Stanley T. Wearden is dean of the College of Communication and Information at Kent State University. He lives in Kent, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Introduction: The Impact of War on Communication Theory, Research, and the Field of Communication
The Editors	p. 3
Images in Popular Culture
Protest Music as Alternative Media During the Vietnam War Era	p. 24
Created Heroes, Humanized Soldiers, and Superior Western Values: Fantasy Theme Analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima	p. 41
Ghosts of Vietnam: Filmic Representations of Unconsummated American Heroism in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century	p. 57
Drawn-Out Battles: Exploring War-Related Messages in Animated Cartoons	p. 75
Institutional Propaganda Messages
Economic Convergence and the Celebration of Mass Production: The World War II Advertising Campaign to Sell Jeeps	p. 92
"You Boys and Girls Can Be the Minute Men of Today": Narrative Possibility and Normative Appeal in the U.S. Treasury's 1942 War Victory Comics	p. 112
Inspecting the Rhetorical Arsenal: The War Frame in Nazi Germany's der Kampf and America's War on Terror	p. 126
An Enduring Legacy of World War I: Propaganda, Journalism and the Domestic Struggle over the Commodification of Truth	p. 147
Effects of News Coverage
Coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Business Magazines: The Profit and Economy of U.S. War and Policy	p. 164
"New Mexico's Always Been Patriotic and Loyal to the Country": Uncritical Journalistic Patriotism in Wartime	p. 183
Embedded Reporting and Audience Response: Parasocial Interaction and Perceived Realism in Embedded Reporting from the Iraq War on Television News	p. 205
Prince Harry and the Afghanistan Media Blackout	p. 222
Future
Cyberwar: The Future of War?	p. 238
About the Contributors	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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