Violence and war in culture and the media : five disciplinary lenses / edited by Athina Karatzogianni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karatzogianni, Athina.

Series:

Media, war and security.

Media, war and security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

Violence in mass media.

War in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that offers a varied analysis which has wider implications for several disciplines, thus providing the reader with a text that is both multi-faceted and accessible. This book introduces the current debates surrounding this topic through five particular lenses: the historica

Contents:

Violence and War in Culture and the Media Five disciplinary lenses; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Violence and war in culture and the media through five disciplinary lenses; PART I Through the historical lens; 2 Perceptions of violence in the early modern communications revolution: the case of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648; 3 Patrick Pécherot, eugenics and the Occupation of France; 4 United States Army chaplains and magazines: censorship in World War II; PART II Through the cultural lens; 5 Hidden conflict, visible world

6 The ethics of remembering: Little Big Man and the exoneration of American guilt7 Loving violence? The ambiguities of SM imagery in contemporary popular culture; PART III Through the sociological lens; 8 Defining the victims of terrorism: competing frames around victim compensation and commemoration post-9/11 New York City and 3/11 Madrid; 9 The returns of war: bodies, images and invented ritual in the war on terror; 10 Frames, forums and Facebook: interpreting British Muslim understandings of post-7/7 militarist media narratives; PART IV Through the political lens

11 The Israel-Hezbollah War and the Winograd Committee12 Media actors in war and conflict: insights from political psychology and the Bosnian war; 13 Virilio and the gaze of the state: vision machines, new media and resistance; 14 Blame it on the Russians: tracking the portrayal of Russian hackers during cyber conflict incidents; PART V Through the gender studies lens; 15 Making the pain count: embodied politics in the new age of terror; 16 Corrective rapes: rape narratives in South Africa 260; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781136500206

1136500200

9781136500213

1136500219

9780203143308

0203143302

OCLC:

798532047