Television and Terror [electronic resource] : Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse /
Hoskins, A.author.
O'Loughlin, B.author.
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue: The (Terrorised) State We're in; 1 Introduction; 2 Television and Time; 3 Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of the 'CNN Effect'; 4 Talking Terror: Political Discourses and the 2003 Iraq War; 5 Television's Quagmire: The Misremembered and the Unforgotten; 6 The Distant Body; 7 Drama and Documentary: The Power of Nightmares; 8 Security and Publics: Democratic Times?; 9 The Irresolution of Television; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.
Political communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures-History.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Communication.
Political Communication.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
Media Studies.