Re-Imagining the War on Terror - Seeing, Waiting, Travelling

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW HILL is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and The London Institute and held Research Fellowships at the University of Reading and the University of Ulster. Klappentext This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art. Zusammenfassung This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks! combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media coverage! to cinema! photography and contemporary art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction September 11 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot Acting Out: Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and Since The Bin Laden Tapes 'Shock& Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and Since Endless Waiting Hostage Videos: 'Scenes of Slaughter' Imagining Kabul Phantoms and Jails The Unseen New York: A Return

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Introduction September 11 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot Acting Out: Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and Since The Bin Laden Tapes 'Shock& Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and Since Endless Waiting Hostage Videos: 'Scenes of Slaughter' Imagining Kabul Phantoms and Jails The Unseen New York: A Return

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• Authors: a Hill, A. Hill, Andrew Hill
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780230200081
• ISBN: 978-0-230-20008-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: New Security Challenges; New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Media Studies, Communication, Anthropology, International Relations, Terrorism, armed struggle, Political Science and International Studies, Media and Communication, Terrorism, Political Violence, Human Geography, Terrorism and Political Violence, cinema;media;photography;terrorism;war