Violence and War in Culture and the Media : Five Disciplinary Lenses

ISBN-13: 9780415665230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

Athina Karatzogianni

Opis

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 historical involves an examination of historical patterns of the communication of violence and war through a variety sources
• the cultural utilises the cultural studies perspective to engage with issues of violence, visibility and spectatorship
• the sociological focuses on how terrorism, violence and war are remembered and negotiated in the public sphere
• the political offers an exploration into the politics of assigning blame for war, the influence of psychology on media actors, and new media political communication issues in relation to the state and the media
• the gender-studies perspective provides an analysis of violence and war from a gender studies viewpoint.

Violence and War in Culture and the Media will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, media and communications studies, sociology, security studies and political science.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Violence and War in Culture and the Media through Five Disciplinary Lenses  Athina Karatzogianni  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  Peter H. Wilson 3. Patrick Pécherot, Eugenics and the Occupation of France Angela Kimyongür  4. United States Army Chaplains and Pulp Magazines: Censorship in World War II Jenel Virden  PART II: Through the Cultural Lens  5. Hidden Conflict, Visible World  Keith Tester  6. The Ethics of Remembering: Little Big Man and the Exoneration of American Guilt James Aston 7. Loving Violence? The Ambiguities of SM Imagery in Contemporary Popular Culture Sarah Harper and Majid Yar  PART III: Through the Sociological Lens  8. Defining the Victims of Terrorism: Competing Victim Frames Post 9/11 New York City and 11M, Madrid Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Rosemary Barberet  9. The Returns of War: Bodies, Images and Invented Ritual in the Returns of the War on Terror Michael S. Drake 10. Frames, Forums and Facebook: Interpretating British Muslim Understandings of Post-7/7 Militarist Media Narratives  Lucy Michael  PART IV: Through the Political Lens  11. The Israel-Hezbollah War and the Winograd Committee Raphael Cohen-Almagor and Sharon Haleva-Amir  12. Media Actors in War and Conflict: Insights from Political Psychology and the Bosnian War Maria Touri 13. Virilio and the Gaze of the State: Vision Machines, New Media and Resistance Andy Robinson 14. Blame it on the Russians: Tracking the Portrayal of Russian Hackers During Cyber Conflict Incidents Athina Karatzogianni  PART V: Through the Gender Studies Lens  15. Making the Pain Count: Embodied Politics in the New Age of Terror Gillian Youngs  16. Corrective Rapes: Rape Narratives in South Africa Bev Orton

O autorze

Athina Karatzogianni is Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Hull, UK. She is author of The Politics of Cyberconflict (2006), Power, Conflict and Resistance: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies with Andrew Robinson (2010), and editor of Cyber Conflict and Global Politics (2009).