Ugly War, Pretty Package

How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Av Deborah L. Jaramillo, Deborah Lynn Jaramillo

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Deborah L. Jaramillo investigates cable news' presentation of the Iraq War in relation to "high concept" filmmaking. High concept films can be reduced to single-sentence summaries and feature pre-sold elements; they were considered financially safe projects that would sustain consumer interest beyond their initial theatrical run. Using high concept as a framework for the analysis of the 2003 coverage of the Iraq War—paying close attention to how Fox News and CNN packaged and promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq—Ugly War, Pretty Package offers a new paradigm for understanding how television news reporting shapes our perceptions of events.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-09-25
Mått156 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIndiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor272
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253221223

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Introduction: The Spectacle of Televised War1. High Concept, Media Conglomeration, and Commercial News2. The High-Concept War Narrative3. Intertextuality, Genres, and Stars4. War Characters5. The Look and Sound of High-Concept War Coverage6. The Marketing of the 2003 Invasion of IraqConclusion: The Narrative Exits Screen Right, the Coverage Fizzles, and News is What, Exactly?Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CWorks CitedIndex

"The author's thorough documentation and careful analysis will be most appreciated by students of journalism or communications, as an understanding of communications theory is helpful, but readers seriously following current events may be interested as well."—Library Journal". . . a thoughtful commentary and critique of the state of the cable news component of early-21st-century journalism. . . . Highly recommended.May 2010"—Choice"Jaramillo provides a highly illuminating analysis of the aesthetics and politics of recent TV war coverage. Well-researched . . . comprehensive and penetrating . . . offer[ing] highly original research and analysis."—Douglas Kellner, author of Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy