A Century of Media a Century of War

Release on 2006 | by Robin Andersen

Topics include: the arms supply scandal involving Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North in 1987, the Gulf War and TV channel CNN, the films Black hawk down, Courage under fire, Three kings, Saving Private Ryan.

Author: Robin Andersen
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 0820478938
Category: History
Page: 350
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A Century of Media a Century of War

Forged over the course of a century, the connections between war and media run long and deep. As this book reveals, the history of war and its telling has been a battle over public perception. The selection of which stories are told and which are ignored helps justify past battles and ensure future wars. Narratives of protest and pain, defeat and suffering, guilt and abuse struggle to be heard amid the empowering myths of war and heroism. As Robin Andersen argues, the history of struggle between war and its representation has changed the way war is fought and the way we tell the stories of war. Information management, once called censorship and propaganda, has developed in tandem with new media technologies. Now, digital imaging creates virtual battlefields as computer-based technologies transform the weapons of war. Along the way, images on the nightly news, on movie screens, and in video games have turned war into entertainment. In the grip of virtual war, it is difficult to realize the loss of compassion or the consequences for democracy.

Language: en
Pages: 350

A Century of Media, a Century of War

Authors: Robin Andersen

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Peter Lang

Language: en
Pages: 236

A Century of American Icons

Authors: Mary Cross

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Greenwood

Provides a decade-by-decade analysis of consumer product advertising in the United States during the twentieth century, and discusses how products evolve to become cultural icons.

Language: en
Pages: 272

A Century of Design

Authors: Penny Sparke

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

Explores important style movements of the last hundred years and traces their development through profiles of the century's most influential designers