Wartime images, peacetime wounds
Subtitle: the media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
By: Sandra Lambertus.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Gustafsen Lake Standoff, B.C., 1995 -- Press coverage; Shuswap Indians -- Press coverage; Shuswap Indians -- Civil rights; Shuswap Indians -- Government relations; Law enforcement -- British Columbia; Mass media and ethnic relations -- British Columbia; Native peoples in mass media; British Columbia -- Ethnic relations; British Columbia -- Politics and government
Description: "In Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds, Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." "Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news coverage, legal and law enforcement documents, and ethnographic interviews with journalists, RCMP officers, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. Employing a variety of methodologies including discourse analysis, the investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by those of 'outsiders' during the course of the event. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals. Provocative and convincingly argued, Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for the study of the representation of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.