[PDF] From Terrorism To Television eBook

Author : Qaisar Abbas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000167364

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This book unpacks the media dynamics within the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan. It provides an in-depth, critical, and scholarly discussion of contemporary issues such as media, state, and democracy in Pakistan; freedom of expression in Pakistani journalism; Balochistan as a blind spot in mainstream newspapers; media control by state institutions; women and media discourses; TV talk shows and coverage of Kashmir; feminist narrative and media images of Malala Yousufzai and Mukhtaran Mai; jihad on screen; and Osama bin Laden’s death on screen, to understand the relation between media and terrorism. The book covers diverse media types including TV, radio, newspapers, print media, films, documentary, stage performance, and social media. Detailed, interdisciplinary, analytical, and with original perspectives from journalists as well as academics, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of media studies, Pakistan studies, politics and international affairs, military and terrorism studies, journalism and communication studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest general readers, policy makers, and those interested in global journalism, mass media, and freedom of expression.

Author : Stacy Takacs
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0700618384

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The Fox-TV series 24 might have been in production long before its premier just two months after 9/11, but its storyline—and that of many other television programs—has since become inextricably embedded in the nation's popular consciousness. This book marks the first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9/11 American television, critiquing those shows that—either blindly or intentionally—supported the Bush administration's security policies. Stacy Takacs focuses on the role of entertainment programming in building a national consensus favoring a War on Terror, taking a close look at programs that comment both directly and allegorically on the post-9/11 world. In show after show, she chillingly illustrates how popular television helped organize public feelings of loss, fear, empathy, and self-love into narratives supportive of a controversial and unprecedented war. Takacs examines a spectrum of program genres—talk shows, reality programs, sitcoms, police procedurals, male melodramas, war narratives—to uncover the recurrent cultural themes that helped convince Americans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and compromise their own civil liberties. Spanning the past decade of the ongoing conflict, she reviews not only key touchstones of post-9/11 popular culture such as 24, Rescue Me, and Sleeper Cell, but also less remarked-upon but relevant series like JAG, Off to War, Six Feet Under, and Jericho. She also considers voices of dissent that have emerged through satirical offerings like The Daily Show and science fiction series such as Lost and Battlestar Galactica. Takacs dissects how the War on Terror has been broadcast into our living rooms in programs that routinely offer simplistic answers to important questions—Who exactly are we fighting? Why do they hate us?—and she examines the climate of fear and paranoia they've created. Unlike cultural analyses that view the government's courting of Hollywood as a conspiracy to manipulate the masses, her book considers how economic and industry considerations complicate state-media relations throughout the era. Terrorism TV offers fresh insight into how American television directly and indirectly reinforced the Bush administration's security agenda and argues for the continued importance of the medium as a tool of collective identity formation. It is an essential guide to the televisual landscape of American consciousness in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : A. Hoskins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230592813

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The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.

Author : Brigitte L. Nacos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226567192

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The news as commodity, public good, and political manipulator -- Selling fear : the not so hidden persuaders -- Civil liberties versus national security -- Selling the Iraq war -- Preventing attacks against the homeland -- Preparing for the next attack -- Mass-mediated politics of counterterrorism -- Postscript. President Obama : underselling fear?

Author : Brigitte Lebens Nacos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231100151

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Exploring the recent increase in anti-American terrorism, this updated study argues that terrorist groups are now exploiting the link between the media and public opinion polls (particularly regarding the popularity of American presidents) in order to publ

Author : Rich Jepson
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780956150400

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Have you ever wondered where 24's creators get their ideas from? Ever thought how real life Counter Terrorist Unit's operate? Or if any of all those characters are actually based on real people?... The this book is for you. 24 - Terrorism Through Television takes you deep inside the minds of it's writers and how they create all those tense story lines that keep us hooked week after week. The book details the show's representation of Counter Terrorism in the 21st Century and discovers the true life events that inspire the series. With inside information, interviews & secrets from the set this book will tell you everything you've ever wanted to know about the inspiring real world events behind 24.

Author : Stacy Takacs
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618378

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The first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9/11 American television. Critiques those shows that--either blindly or intentionally--supported the Bush administration's security policies, showing how popular culture mediated a profound national trauma.

Author : Maz Jobrani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147674999X

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Previously published in hardcover: 2015.

Author : Naomi A. Moland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019090397X

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Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments. But the show has a global reach as well, with more than thirty co-productions of Sesame Street that are viewed in over 150 countries. In recent years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided funding to the New York-based Sesame Workshop to create international versions of Sesame Street. Many of these programs teach children to respect diversity and tolerate others, which some hope will ultimately help to build peace in conflict-affected societies. In fact, the U.S. government has funded local versions of the show in several countries enmeshed in conflict, including Afghanistan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Jordan, and Nigeria. Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism? takes an in-depth look at the Nigerian version, Sesame Square, which began airing in 2011. In addition to teaching preschool-level academic skills, Sesame Square seeks to promote peaceful coexistence-a daunting task in Nigeria, where escalating ethno-religious tensions and terrorism threaten to fracture the nation. After a year of interviewing Sesame creators, observing their production processes, conducting episode analysis, and talking to local educators who use the program in classrooms, Naomi Moland found that this child-focused use of soft power raised complex questions about how multicultural ideals translate into different settings. In Nigeria, where segregation, state fragility, and escalating conflict raise the stakes of peacebuilding efforts, multicultural education may be ineffective at best, and possibly even divisive. This book offers rare insights into the complexities, challenges, and dilemmas inherent in soft power attempts to teach the ideals of diversity and tolerance in countries suffering from internal conflicts.