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

Product details

• Authors: Brian McNair
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032631998
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263199-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); 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