War and the Media: Essays on News Reporting, Propaganda and Popular Culture

by Paul M. Haridakis (Editor), Barbara S. Hugenberg (Editor), Stanley T. Wearden (Editor)

Overview

Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers of those images. But this book looks beyond the obvious. The contributors examine historical and contemporary examples that reflect the role of the media or mass communication or both during wartime. The essays highlight the centrality of communication to the perpetuation and to the resolution of war, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between communication and war is as important to understand as war itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786446070
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/30/2009
Series:	Social Sciences/Journalism
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul M. Haridakis is an associate professor at Kent State University. He lives in Akron, Ohio. Barbara Hugenberg is an assistant professor at Kent State University. She lives in Kent, Ohio. Stanley T. Wearden is dean of the College of Communication and Information at Kent State University. He lives in Kent, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
Introduction: The Impact of War on Communication Theory, Research, and the Field of Communication
The Editors     

Part I: Images in Popular Culture
Protest Music as Alternative Media During the Vietnam War
Richard A. Lee     
Created Heroes, Humanized Soldiers, and Superior Western Values: Fantasy Theme Analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Koji Fuse and James E. Mueller     
Ghosts of Vietnam: Filmic Representations of Unconsummated American Heroism in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Wesley J. O’Brien     
Drawn-Out Battles: Exploring War-Related Messages in Animated Cartoons
Rekha Sharma     

Part II: Institutional Propaganda Messages
Economic Convergence and the Celebration of Mass Production: The World War II Advertising Campaign to Sell Jeeps
Kathleen German     
“You Boys and Girls Can Be the Minute Men of Today”: Narrative Possibility and Normative Appeal in the U.S. Treasury’s 1942 War Victory Comics
James J. Kimble and Trischa Goodnow     
Inspecting the Rhetorical Arsenal: The War Frame in Nazi Germany’s der Kampf and America’s War on Terror
Roy Schwartzman     
An Enduring Legacy of World War I: Propaganda, Journalism and the Domestic Struggle over the Commodification of Truth
Burton St. John III     

Part III: Effects of News Coverage
Coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Business Magazines: The Profit and Economy of U.S. War and Policy
Karen Rohrbauck Stout     
“New Mexico’s Always Been Patriotic and Loyal to the Country”: Uncritical Journalistic Patriotism in Wartime
David Weiss     
Embedded Reporting and Audience Response: Parasocial Interaction and Perceived Realism in Embedded Reporting from the Iraq War on Television News
M. F. Casper and Jeffrey T. Child     
Prince Harry and the Afghanistan Media Blackout
Terri Toles Patkin     

Part IV: Future
Cyberwar: The Future of War?
Brett Lunceford     

About the Contributors     
Index