The Media and the Persian Gulf War

Herausgeber: Denton, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many scholars call the Persian Gulf conflict the first prime-time war. Certainly, the technologies, strategies, and skills of the military in managing the public agenda were equal to those of the television networks and major print organizations. The Media and the Persian Gulf War focuses on the processes and effects of the media, both leading up to and during the mother of all battles in 1990 and 1991. Broad in scope and varied in methodologies, the chapters span the media of television, radio, print, and film. Chapters discuss such specific topics as the relationship between the press and the censoring military, CNN's and C-SPAN's coverage, how talk radio and television covered the war, the media's depiction of women in the military, the Gulf War as a referent in advertising, and how popular culture legitimized the war. This work will be an important resource for scholars in political and mass communication, popular culture, and political science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942328
• ISBN-10: 0275942325
• Artikelnr.: 21934178

Autorenporträt

ROBERT E. DENTON, JR. is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of several books, including The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan, Political Communication In America, second edition, (with Gary Woodward), and Ethical Dimensions of Political Communication (Praeger 1988, 1990, and 1991). Denton serves as associate editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly and as editor for the Praeger Series in Political Communication and Presidential Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

The Rules of the Game: The Military and the Press in the Persian War by
Gary C. Woodward Television as an Instrument of War by Robert E. Denton,
Jr. The Natural, and Inevitable, Phases of War Reporting: Historical
Shadows, New Communication in the Persian Gulf by Donald L. Shaw and
Shannon E. Martin Media Perspectives on World Opinion During the Kuwaiti
Crisis by Frank Louis Rusciano Vox Populi: Talk Radio and TV Cover the Gulf
War by Dan Nimmo and Mark Hovind Constructing News Narratives: ABC and CNN
Cover the Gulf War by Bethami A. Dobkin C-SPAN's Coverage of the Gulf War:
Television as Town Square by Janette Kenner Muir News Viewing,
Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward the Gulf War by Mary Beth Oliver,
Marie-Louise mares, and Joanne Cantor War in the Global Village: A
Seven-Country Comparison of the Television News Coverage of the Beginning
of the Gulf War by David L. Swanson and Larry David Smith Media Coverage of
Women in the Gulf War by Anne Johnston "What Did You Advertise With the
War, Daddy?": Using the Persian Gulf War as a Referent System in
Advertising by Matthew P. McAllister Celluloid Heroes and Smart Bombs:
Hollywood at War in the Middle East by Stephen Prince From the Great War to
the Gulf War: Popular Entertainment and the Legitimation of Warfare by
James Combs Selected Bibliography Index