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Informationen zum Autor Slocum, J. David Klappentext Bringing together fifteen classic essays by prominent scholars in a variety of fields, including history, international relations, communications, American studies, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies, Terrorism, Media, Liberation explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. Zusammenfassung 'Terrorism! Media! Liberation' explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. It provides a historical! rather than simplistically moral perspective on the well-mediated! ""war on terrorism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Recurrent Return to Algiers by J. David Slocum Film and the Anarchist Peril by Richard Porton Disruption, Destruction, Denial: Hitchcock as Saboteur by Susan Smith Two Faces of 1950s Terrorism: The Film Presentation of Mau Mau and the Malayan Emergency by Susan Carruthers The Battle of Algiers: Colonial Struggle and Collective Allegiance by Murray Smith Discourses of Terrorism, Feminism, and the Family in von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane by E. Ann Kaplan The Television Terrorist by Bethami A. Dobkin Iran, Islam, and the Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989 by Melani McAlister Simulations and Terrors of Our Time by Robert Merrill Mass-Mediated Terrorism in the New World (Dis)Order by Brigitte L. Nacos Traditions of Representation: Political Violence and the Myth of Atavism by Martin McLoone Fragmenting the Nation: Images of Terrorism in Indian Popular Cinema by Sumita S. Chakravarty Who Was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination in Lumumba: La Mort du Prophet by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror by Allen Feldman Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror by Rosalind C. Morris 9/11: Before, After, and In Between by James Der Derian Contributors Index...
