Binding: Paperback
Description: This book analyzes the methods effects and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelationships of national identity formation corporate news and opinion dissemination and the quasi - academic apparatus of war justification - focusing on the Bush administration's exploitation of the fear and insecurity caused by 9/11 and how this has manifested itself in the US media (especially the tabloid populist media). Debrix explains how all serve to defend and produce state power and develops a model of tabloidized international relations where responses are both organized by and supportive of a strong centralized US government. The field of International Relations sorely needs such analytics in so far as it explains how people in their everyday lives relate to transnational issues. Tabloid Terror critically covers a wide variety of US popular culture from the Internet to Fox News; analyzes diverse authors as Julia Kristeva J. G. Ballard and Robert Kaplan and takes into account renowned international relations interlocutors as Don Imus Bill O Reilly and Tommy Franks.
Title: Tabloid Terror War Culture And Geopolitics
Author(s): Debrix Francois (Virginia Tech University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415772914
Pages: 204 Pages
Publication Date: 8/23/2007
Category: Press & Journalism