Brute reality : power, discourse and the mediation of war /
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Price, Stuart
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BookPublisher: London ; New York, NY : New York, NY : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Description: x, 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780745320809 (hbk.); 0745320805 (hbk.); 0745320791 (pbk.); 9780745320793 (pbk.).Subject(s): War and society | Mass media and war | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects | Power (Social sciences) | National security -- Social aspects
Contents:
Introduction : the composition of the 'terror war' -- From the 'War on Terror' to 'overseas contingency operations' -- War, terror and the real -- Media and the reproduction of meaning -- Surveillance, authority and linguistic categories -- Film, bureaucracy and the gendered protagonist -- Economic transformation, protest and the state -- Conclusion : democracy and the terror war
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-215) and index
Introduction : the composition of the 'terror war' -- From the 'War on Terror' to 'overseas contingency operations' -- War, terror and the real -- Media and the reproduction of meaning -- Surveillance, authority and linguistic categories -- Film, bureaucracy and the gendered protagonist -- Economic transformation, protest and the state -- Conclusion : democracy and the terror war
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