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Title The Media and the Persian Gulf War / edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [1993]
©1993

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Description xiii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Series Praeger series in political communication, 1062-5623
Praeger series in political communication. 1062-5623
Contents Series Foreword / Robert E. Denton, Jr. -- Preface / Robert E. Denton, Jr. -- 1. The Rules of the Game: The Military and the Press in the Persian Gulf War / Gary C. Woodward -- 2. Television as an Instrument of War / Robert E. Denton, Jr. -- 3. The Natural, and Inevitable, Phases of War Reporting: Historical Shadows, New Communication in the Persian Gulf / Donald L. Shaw and Shannon E. Martin -- 4. Media Perspectives on World Opinion During the Kuwaiti Crisis / Frank Louis Rusciano -- 5. Vox Populi: Talk Radio and TV Cover the Gulf War / Dan Nimmo and Mark Hovind -- 6. Constructing News Narratives: ABC and CNN Cover the Gulf War / Bethami A. Dobkin -- 7. C-SPAN's Coverage of the Gulf War: Television as Town Square / Janette Kenner Muir -- 8. News Viewing, Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward the Gulf War / Mary Beth Oliver, Marie-Louise Mares and Joanne Cantor
9. War in the Global Village: A Seven-Country Comparison of Television News Coverage of the Beginning of the Gulf War / David L. Swanson and Larry David Smith -- 10. Media Coverage of Women in the Gulf War / Anne Johnston -- 11. "What Did You Advertise with the War, Daddy?": Using the Persian Gulf War as a Referent System in Advertising / Matthew P. McAllister -- 12. Celluloid Heroes and Smart Bombs: Hollywood at War in the Middle East / Stephen Prince -- 13. From the Great War to the Gulf War: Popular Entertainment and the Legitimation of Warfare / James Combs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Journalists.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Mass media and the war.
Author Denton, Robert E., Jr.
LC no. 92036554
ISBN 0275942325