The media and the making of history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Theobald, John, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Moments of untruth
  • Radical media cities. The four generations
  • The great discursive illusion, 1914-1918
  • No word that fits. Media discourse and the rise of fascism
  • Comics and communism. Tintin fights the Cold War
  • Consuming reality. Mutually assured destruction and routines of embedded deception
  • Acting as if: resistance to dominant discourses of anti-Communism and nuclear escalation in the 1980s
  • A collapse of hegemonic discourse. Resistance in Eastern Europe
  • Cold War victory and the selling of German unification
  • The longevity of wartime discourses and identities. The case of Britain and Europe
  • The Balkans revisited
  • Twin towers of Babel. 'War on terrorism' and 'anticipatory pre-emption'.