Rethinking Global Security Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror |
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| Editor:
| Martin, Andrew
Petro, Patrice |
| Author:
| Kozol, Wendy
Bullock, Marcus
Castonguay, James
Layoun, Mary
Decola, Rebecca
Mellencamp, Patricia
Grajeda, Tony
Allen, Mike
Ricigliano, Robert
Davis, Doug
Parks, Lisa |
| Series title: | New Directions in International Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3830-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2006 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $46.00 |
Book Description:
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In Rethinking Global Security , Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats...
More Description In Rethinking Global Security , Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.