Tabloid terror
Subtitle: war, culture, and geopolitics
By: François Debrix.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415772907; 9780415772914; 9780203944660
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Social aspects; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Mass media and the war; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cyberterror and media-induced fears : the tabloid production of emergency culture; title: Tabloid realism and the reconstruction of American security culture before 9/11; title: Discourses of war, geographies of abjection : American intellectuals of statecraft and the avenging of 9/11; title: The United States and the war machine : proliferating insecurity, terror, and agony after the invasion of Iraq; title: The sublime spectatorship of the Iraq war : America's tabloid aesthetics of violence and the erasure of the event.