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1. Gendered Media Culture and the Imagery of War.

Author

Andersen, Robin

Subjects
*IRAQ War, 2003-2011, *WAR in mass media, *HEROES in mass media, *HEROES in motion pictures, *MASS media, *FEMINISM
Abstract

The article explores the appropriation by the White House, of filmic images of the heroic male in films like "Top Gun," in stage-managed events such as United States President George W. Bush's "homecoming" from Iraq in a fighter jet, with Bush kitted out in full combat gear. The article suggests that war reporting comprises an ongoing fiction, with fragments of images from then and now repackaged to resonate with a contemporary sentiment and sympathy. The author considers the now infamous pictures of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison as part of the commodification of the war-as-entertainment trope.

Published
2005

2. Hollywood's Media--and Washington's.

Author

Andersen, Robin

Subjects
TORTURE, MASS media, WAR
Abstract

The article discusses that after Karen Greenberg concluded an article on TomDispatch.com since September 27, 2007, a media conversation about torture has unexpectedly taken off in the U.S. The author inferred that the New York Times in the October 10, 2007 issue published a lengthy exposé about the long turmoil at the Department of Justice caused by the president George W. Bush White House's pressure that enhanced interrogation was key to fighting its war on terror. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann rebuked Bush directly for torture especially waterboarding, the practice of simulated drowning.

Published
2008

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