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The media and the making of history / John Theobald.

Van Pelt Library P95.8 .T49 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Theobald, John, 1946-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mass media--Political aspects.
Mass media.
World politics--20th century.
World politics.
Physical Description:
226 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Contents:
Moments of untruth
Radical media cities. 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'.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-216) and index.
ISBN:
0754638227
OCLC:
53361355

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