| The Persian Gulf TV War Contributor(s): Kellner, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367294753 ISBN-13: 9780367294755 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Business & Economics | Industries - Media & Communications |
| Dewey: 070.195 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.70 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Douglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war. At once a work of social theory, media criticism, and political history, this book demonstrates how television served as a conduit for George Bush's war policies while silencing anti-war voices and foregoing spirited discussion of the complex issues involved. In so doing, the medium failed to assume its democratic responsibilities of adequately informing the American public and debating issues of common concern. Kellner analyzes the dominant frames through which television presented the war and focuses on the propaganda that sold the war to the public-one of the great media spectacles and public relations campaigns of the post-World War II era. In the spirit of Orwell and Marcuse, Kellner studies the language surrounding the Gulf war and the cynical politics of distortion and disinformation that shaped the mainstream media version of the war, how the Bush administration and Pentagon manipulated the media, and why a majority of the American public accepted the war as just and moral. |
