A Violent World
Subtitle: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: July 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780742537989
Subjects: Media Studies; Press & journalism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; International Relations - Arms Control; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science / Arms Control; 1993-; Arab-Israeli conflict; Middle East; Press coverage; Television broadcasting of news; Terrorism
Description: "A Violent World analyzes images on three channels - global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV - that contribute heavily to how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan Ben-Shaul uses critical media theory and qualitative and aesthetic approaches drawn from cinema studies to examine how dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news. Specifically, he focuses on the American elites' global ideology and the conflicting dominant national-peripheral ideologies of Israeli-Palestinian elites. His in-depth study, of particular interest to scholars of Middle East studies and international communication, offers a new model of analysis for contemporary television news."--Jacket.