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Wartime images, peacetime wounds : the media and the Gustafsen Lake standoff

Title: Wartime images, peacetime wounds : the media and the Gustafsen Lake standoff / Sandra Lambertus.
Author: Lambertus, Sandra.
Publication: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

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Description

[xxi], 277 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds, Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." "Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news coverage, legal and law enforcement documents, and ethnographic interviews with journalists, RCMP officers, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. Employing a variety of methodologies including discourse analysis, the investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by those of 'outsiders' during the course of the event. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals. Provocative and convincingly argued, Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for the study of the representation of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general."--Jacket

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.

Contents

Map of Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, and Surrounding Area -- 1. Serious Red Alert -- 2. Media Circus -- 3. Show of Force -- 4. Out of Control -- 5. Surrender -- 6. Terms of Engagement -- 7. Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds -- App. 1. Chronology of the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff -- App. 3. History of Aboriginal Disputes in Canada -- App. 4. Excerpts from RCMP Operational Manual II. 16 Media/RCMP Relations -- App. 5. Toronto Globe and Mail Account of the 11 September 1995 Firefight -- App. 6. Vancouver Sun Account of the 11 September 1995 Firefight -- App. 7. Excerpt from RCMP (Unclassified Memo) 1 September 1995.

ISBN

0802087450
9780802087454
0802085512
9780802085511

LCCN

2004299372
99807492136

OCLC

ocm52373950
52373950
SCSB-8806311

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Princeton University Library