| Description |
vii, 264 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Defining what and reasoning why: 1. A question of meaning -- 2. Explaining propaganda. -- Pt. II. A conceptual arrangement: -- 3. An essential trinity: rhetoric, myth, symbolism -- 4. Integuments of propaganda. -- Pt. III. Case studies in propaganda: 5. Privatising propaganda -- 6. Party propaganda -- 7. Propaganda and the symbolic state: a British experience. -- Pt. IV. Marketing war: 8. Nine-eleven and war -- 9. Weapons of mass deception: propaganda, the media and the Iraq war |
| Summary |
This book is a cross-disciplinary analysis of the meaning, content and significance of the word propaganda today. Its focus is primarily on the current world order through history. It focuses not just on describing this phenomenon but according it some explanatory depth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255] and index |
| Subject |
Propaganda.
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Propaganda -- Case studies.
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Propaganda -- History.
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Mass media and public opinion.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Propaganda.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Propaganda.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| LC no. |
2004058000 |
| ISBN |
9780719068522 (hbk.) |
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9780719068539 (paperback) |
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