War, image and legitmacy : viewing contemporary conflict / Milena Michalski and James Gow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michalski, Milena.

Contributor:

Gow, James.

Series:

Contemporary security studies ; 47.

Contemporary security studies ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and war.

Physical Description:

xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Media and war: moving images and meaning 2

Weapons for winning: construction and kinesis 7

Approaches 10

The book 12

2 Moving images and meaning: the nature of the weapon 15

Film, television and war 15

Moving images: the nature of narratives 21

Strategies of understanding 28

3 Feature fiction film 33

Interpreting the Yugoslav war on screen 33

No Man's Land 42

Prisoners of the Caucasus 47

Kings in the desert 56

Black Hawks downed 66

4 Documentary and current affairs 74

The Fall of Milosevic: the final Death of Yugoslavia? 75

Chechnya and media management: prisoners of the Caucasus 84

From prisoners to hostages: Chechen terrorism and the Beslan Siege 92

Turning up the heat: fire-fighters and Fahrenheit 9/11 96

'Real war movies' and embed specials 102

5 Televison news 117

Bosnia by television 118

September 11 live and reflected - the ABC of coverage 123

The real 'CNN effect': the epicentre of the storm - local news for the world 128

CBS news: What We Saw 134

After September 11 - Afghanistan and 'the war on terror' 138

The WMD phantom and the Law Lord's shadow: 'non-image' images and absent images - Kelly and Kay 145

Fallen heroes, flags and faces 151

Occupation preoccupations - America's image problems 157

6 The alphabet of images 165

Africa, image, war: the black hole 165

Webs of war and MPeg impact 174

Authors and approaches to representing war on screen: the ABCNNBCBS of TV news and current affairs 180

Dropping and weighing anchor: continuity and change in network news 190

7 Image and experience: legitimacy and contemporary war 197

Contemporary conflict, legitimacy and strategic success 197

Kinetic images, kinetic force: image environment domination, containment and suppression 205

Conclusion: image and experience, legitimacy and war 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-258) and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

0415401011

0203089227

9780415401012

9780203089224

OCLC:

77520539

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