Ugly war, pretty package
Subtitle: how CNN and Fox News made the invasion of Iraq high concept
By: Deborah L. Jaramillo.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780253353634; 9780253221223
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Television and the war; Television broadcasting of news -- United States; War in mass media; Mass media -- Objectivity -- United States
Description: "Deborah L. Jaramillo investigates cable news' presentation of the Iraq War in relation to "high concept" filmmaking. High concept films can be reduced to single-sentence summaries and feature pre-sold elements; they were considered financially safe projects that would sustain consumer interest beyond their initial theatrical run. Using high concept as a framework for the analysis of the 2003 coverage of the Iraq War - paying close attention to how Fox News and CNN packaged and promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq - Ugly War, Pretty Package offers a new paradigm for understanding how television news reporting shapes our perceptions of events."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the spectacle of televised war; title: High concept, media conglomeration, and commercial news; title: The high-concept war narrative; title: Intertextuality, genres, and stars; title: War characters; title: The look and sound of high-concept war coverage; title: The marketing of the 2003 invasion of Iraq; title: Conclusion: the narrative exits screen right, the coverage fizzles, and news is what, exactly?