Islam, Security and Television News [electronic resource] /
Flood, C.author.
Hutchings, S.author.
Miazhevich, G.author.
Nickels, H.author.
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The research context; The countries and the broadcasters; Questions of method and purpose; Coda; Part I The Broad View: Patterns and Preoccupations; Preface to Part I; 1 The Political Context: International and Domestic Security Concerns; The foreign policy dimension; The domestic security dimension; Spillover to immigration and integration; Conclusion; 2 The Ten O'Clock News : Anxious Attention; Patterns of representation; Fighting the good fight?; On the home front; Conclusion
3 The Journal de Vingt Heures : A Degree of DetachmentPatterns of coverage; France as an international actor; Questions of rights, freedoms and security; Conclusion; 4 Vremia : Compliance and Complicity; Overview of Islam coverage; Foreign policy and international events; Reporting unrest: criminalization and dissimulation; Pacification and normalization; Conclusion; Part II The Close-Up View: Significant Differences; Preface to Part II; 5 'Islamic Extremism' and the Brokering of Consensus; Introduction; Hegemony as conflict; Case studies; Conclusions; 6 Television Genre and Islamist Terror
Terror, genre, representationGenre as organizing principle; Aims and methods; Emergent types; Terror incident, legal story, counterterrorism report: attributes; Ten O'Clock News : case studies; Journal de Vingt Heures : case studies; Vremia : case studies; Conclusions; 7 The War on Terror as Intercultural Flow; Introduction: from glocalization to the semiotics of intercultural dialogue; The implications of intercultural flow: from cross-cultural comparison to synchronic cross-section; Pinpointing the traces of the flow; Case 1: French and Russian reports on Glasgow/London
Case 2: British and Russian reports on the North African bombings, April 2007Case 3: French/British/Russian coverage of the German terror alert, 5 September 2007; Case 4: Russian coverage of the Moscow alert, January 2007; Case 5: British/Russian coverage of the Litvinenko scandal, November 2006-July 2007; Conclusions; 8 Commemorating 9/11: The Struggle for the Universal; Introduction: commemoration and comparison; Commemoration narratives and the struggle for the universal; Conclusions: commemoration, comparison and the cosmopolitan; Conclusion; Key findings
Overarching themes and central thesisInterdisciplinarity: a creative tension; Transnationalizing the national; Television news: data or text(s)?; The obtruding subject; The missing audience and the all-too-present image; The elusive object; Future directions; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems.
Motion pictures and television.
Middle East—Politics and government.
Communication.
Journalism.
Sociology.
Screen Studies.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Media Studies.
Media and Communication.
Journalism.
Media Research.