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Title
Television and terror
Type
Text
Monograph
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: HV6431 .H68 2007
DDC: 070.4/49363325 full
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bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
In this book, Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.
Table Of Contents
Television and time
Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the 'CNN effect'
Talking terror : political discourses and the 2003 Iraq war
Television's quagmire : the misremembered and the unforgotten
The distant body
Drama and documentary : the power of nightmares
Security and publics : democratic times?
The irresolution of television.
Authorized Access Point
Hoskins, Andrew, 1967- Television and terror