Images of the Enemy - Reporting the New Cold War

Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east-west crises and examines the structures, organisations and political constraints that encouraged negative views of the USSR to flourish.

List of contents

Part 1. Introductions 1. Television News: ‘A Vital Engine of this Great Democracy’ 2. The Nuclear Debate Part 2. Images of the Enemy 3. Reporting the Soviet Union 4. Making Soviet News 5. ‘Russia Condemned’: the Korean Airline Disaster 6. The Superpower Dialogue 7. Gorbachev, Glasnost and Chernobyl Part 3. The Domestic Debate 8. Peace Movement News 9. The Nuclear Election

About the author

Brian McNair

Summary

Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east–west crises and examines the structures, organisations and political constraints that encouraged negative views of the USSR to flourish.

Product details

• Authors: Brian McNair
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032631905
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263190-5
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War