While the huge impact of the mass media on everyday social life is acknowledged, it has generally been assigned a peripheral role in the historical process. This intriguing book demonstrates that, far from being a footnote, media discourse has been a critical factor in recent European history, and indeed one that distinguishes the twentieth century
While the huge impact of the mass media on everyday social life is acknowledged, it has generally been assigned a peripheral role in the historical process. This intriguing book demonstrates that, far from being a footnote, media discourse has been a critical factor in recent European history, and indeed one that distinguishes the twentieth century
John Theobald is Associate Professor in Modern Languages at Southampton Institute, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Moments of untruth Radical media critics. The four generations The great discursive illusion - 1914-1918 No word that fits. Media discourse and the rise of fascism Comics and communism. Tintin fights the Cold War Consuming reality. Mutually assured destruction and routines of embedded deception Acting as if... resistance to dominant discourses of anti-communism and nuclear escalation in the 1980s A collapse of hegemonic discourse. Resistance in Eastern Europe Cold War victory and the selling of German unification The longevity of wartime discourses and identities. The case of Britain and Europe The Balkans revisited Twin Towers of Babel. 'War on Terrorism' and 'anticipatory pre-emption' Conclusion - for an active audience Bibliography Index.
Contents: Moments of untruth Radical media critics. The four generations The great discursive illusion - 1914-1918 No word that fits. Media discourse and the rise of fascism Comics and communism. Tintin fights the Cold War Consuming reality. Mutually assured destruction and routines of embedded deception Acting as if... resistance to dominant discourses of anti-communism and nuclear escalation in the 1980s A collapse of hegemonic discourse. Resistance in Eastern Europe Cold War victory and the selling of German unification The longevity of wartime discourses and identities. The case of Britain and Europe The Balkans revisited Twin Towers of Babel. 'War on Terrorism' and 'anticipatory pre-emption' Conclusion - for an active audience Bibliography Index.
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