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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at the effect of the media on public perception of The Persian Gulf War
Trade ReviewAn important and timely collection that exposes the breadth and depth of the media manipulation threatening U.S. democracy. -- Douglas Kellner * University of Texas at Austin *
Table of ContentsFrom realism to virtual reality : images of America's wars / H. Bruce Franklin
Images of the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars in U.S. television / Daniel C. Hallin
Kicking the Vietnam syndrome : CNN's and CBS's video narratives of the Persian Gulf War / Michelle Kendrick
The Gulf War as total television / Tom Engelhardt
Time and the television war / Victor J. Caldarola
The International media and the Persian Gulf War : the importance of the flow of news / Holly Cowan Shulman
Site unseen : an analysis of CNN's war in the gulf / Mimi White
The media's war / Ella Shohat
Operation Desert Comfort / Dana L. Cloud
Missiles and melodrama (masculinity and the televisual war) / Robyn Wiegman
Soap opera woes : genre, gender, and the Persian Gulf War / Lauren Rabinovitz
The gendered gulf / Cynthia Enloe
Supermarket tabloids and Persian Gulf War dissent / Leonard Rifas
Perspectives on the Persian Gulf War in popular black magazines / Venise T. Berry and Kim E. Karloff
Military presences and absences : Arab women and the Persian Gulf War / Therese Saliba
Only the guns have eyes : military censorship and the body count / Margot Norris
Afterword : Bringing the death-world home / Susan Jeffords
A Persian Gulf War chronology
