Epic Encounters
Subtitle: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (American Crossroads)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520228108
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Cultural studies; United States; Middle East - General; International Relations - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Public opinion; Politics/International Relations; Middle East; USA; Government - U.S. Government; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Foreign public opinion, Americ; Foreign relations; Mass media and public opinion
First sentence: When Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments opened in New York in November 1956, the critical consensus was that the director had created a middle-brow, melodramatic, and highly suspect account of the biblical story of Moses.