Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War (Communications, media, & culture) (Communications, Media, and Culture Series) - Softcover

Jeffords, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813520428 ISBN 13: 9780813520421

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The New Republic airbrushed a Hitler mustache on Saddam Hussein. CNN reporters described the bombing of Baghdad as ""fireworks on the Fourth of July."" The Pentagon fed prepackaged programs to the TV networks. Veiled Arab women became icons of an exotic culture. These are some of the ways the media brought home the war in the Persian Gulf as a national spectacle. Looking to old and new technologies for mass communication-from CNN to comic books, from international news agencies to tabloids, from bomb sights to the Super Bowl-the essays in this collection show the ways in which public information is shaped, packaged, and disseminated.

About this title

About the Author:

Lauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943???1971 and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, also published by Duke University Press. Abraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0813520428
• ISBN 13: 9780813520421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360