Research Catalog

Title

The Persian Gulf TV war / Douglas Kellner.

Author

Kellner, Douglas, 1943-

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

xii, 460 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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 antiwar 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.

Series Statement

Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries

Uniform Title

Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• 1991
• Television broadcasting of news > United States
• Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Press coverage
• Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Mass media and the war
• 05.36 television
• Mass media and war
• Press coverage
• Television broadcasting of news
• Fernsehen
• Golfkrieg 1990-1991
• Berichterstattung
• Massenmedien
• Propaganda
• Golfoorlog (1991)
• Televisie
• Berichtgeving
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-443) and index.

Contents

The road to war. Big lies, compliant media, and yellow journalism -- The subversion of diplomacy -- Hidden agendas and the logics of war -- The "Crisis in the Gulf" and the mainstream media. The media and hegemony -- Media pools and Pentagon control -- CNN's "Crisis in the Gulf" -- Omissions, silences, and unasked questions -- Bush bombs Baghdad. TV war -- Euphoria -- Disinformation, media management, and technowar -- Surrender -- Out of control. Israel -- A clean war? -- Scuds and Patriots -- The media propaganda war. POWs -- Disinformation and the numbers game -- Environmental terrorism -- TV goes to war. The war at home -- Demonstrations and propaganda campaigns -- Iraq under bombardment -- The Battle of Khafji -- The pounding of Iraq. "Allied pounding of Iraqi targets continues" -- The bombing of Basra -- Baghdad atrocity -- Iraqi peace communique -- A cruel hoax -- Countdown to the ground war. Diplomatic chess game -- High noon -- On the threshold -- AirLand war -- Cake walk -- Endgame. The destruction of Iraq -- Desert slaughter -- The war according to Schwarzkopf -- Days of shame -- The perfect war -- Aftermath. Torture and other atrocities -- High-tech massacre -- Environmental Holocaust -- Iraq explodes: Saddam hangs on -- The militarization of U.S. culture and society.

ISBN

• 0813316146
• 9780813316147
• 0813316154
• 9780813316154

LCCN

92003818

OCLC

• ocm25282281
• 25282281
• SCSB-1963891

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library