Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Conroy
Publisher: Lexington Books
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Pages: 180
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0739119648
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.704431
EAN: 9780739119648
Publication Date: November 28, 2007
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Constructing America's War Culture provides a cultural analysis of how the images of the war in Iraq have been influenced and packaged by the media to construct a narrative of war, the Bush Presidency, the fear of terrorism, and the changing global attitudes toward America and American aggression.
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 The Culture of War December 31, 2008
Thomas F. Lee (new hampshire)
I recommend this book not only for students of Communication ( a must read for them) but also for the general reader. The eight authors, each a specialist in his or her field, paint a grim, detailed and insightful analysis of the many ways in which the media have literally worked in concert with the government in creating a culture of war. There is no paranoia here, only the documented details of the creation of an American culture "accustomed to the possibility of war." This book uses the Iraq War as a vivid example, but it also documents the evolution of this destructive symbiosis since the late nineteenth century. It is by no means only a historical record. This is a handbook for perceptive citizens who need the evidence of history to guard against the powerful and subtle forces which have perverted the true notion of patriotism and made war an option far more acceptable than it ought to be.
Academic context with a good message November 3, 2008
M. Wolman (Dallas, TX USA)
I found this book very precise in its links between war, age, race and metaphorical framing. If one is interested in Lakoff, Zinn and Chomsky, you'll enjoy this book. This text is academic without being preachy.
 Selling a War by Bill Mannetti August 14, 2008
J. Bush
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you take seriously the Jeffersonian proposition that democracy cannot exist without a free press, then "Constructing America's War Culture" will disturb you; more, if you believe war is too important to be left to the politicians, then "Constructing" will outrage you. But this book, a nuanced collection of essays by communication specialists, will also inspire you to delve into alternative news sources, explore alternative-view scholarship, and perhaps even join one of the small and independent organizations (cited in several chapter's endnotes) courageously swimming against the current in defiance of politically connected corporate media determined to hold monopoly control of information.
In addition to its focus on the shaping and dissemination of news during time of war, "Constructing" shines a klieg light on the entertainment industry, revealing a picture - as unglamorous as it is unbecoming - of compliant film executives who, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq and during its initial aftermath, were eager to do the Bush administration's bidding, behavior that, sadly, only echoed what Hollywood's dream machine operators have done since that industry's earliest days.
Read this book so that the next time a presidential administration endeavors to sell you a phony reason to go to war, you won't buy it.
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