Description
Book SynopsisBrings together ten essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. This book is designed to promote strategic thinking about the relationships between media, popular culture, and global security.
Trade ReviewThe relationship between security policy and popular and public culture has changed dramatically over the last ten years, a change that calls out for probing critical attention. This timely collection pointedly responds to the need for genuine interdisciplinary engagement with such current issues. Its essays are excitingly original and sophisticated, providing analyses long overdue. -- J. David Slocum * editor of Terrorism, Media, Liberation *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin
Future-War Storytelling: National Security and Popular Film by Doug Davis
Visions of Security: Impermeable Borders, Impassable Walls, Impossible Home/Lands? By Mary N. Layoun
The Origins of the Danger Market by Marcus Bullock
Cold War, Redux by Robert Ricigliano and Mike Allen
Popular Culture and Narratives of Insecurity by Andrew Martin
Fearful Thoughts: U.S. Television Post 9/11 and the Wars in Iraq by Patricia Mellencamp
Planet Patrol: Satellite Imaging, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security by Lisa Parks
Intermedia and the "War on Terror" by James Castonguay
Remapping the Visual War on Terrorism: Citizenship and its Transnational Others by Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola
Picturing Torture: Gulf Wars Past and Present by Tony Grajeda
Notes on Contributors
Index
