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Television and terror : conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New security challenges seriesPublication details: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Description: x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230002319 (alk. paper)
  • 0230002315 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4/49363325 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6431 .H68 2007
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Contents:
Television and time -- Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the 'CNN effect' -- Talking terror : political discourses and the 2003 Iraq war -- Television's quagmire : the misremembered and the unforgotten -- The distant body -- Drama and documentary : the power of nightmares -- Security and publics : democratic times? -- The irresolution of television.
Summary: In this book, Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.

Television and time -- Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the 'CNN effect' -- Talking terror : political discourses and the 2003 Iraq war -- Television's quagmire : the misremembered and the unforgotten -- The distant body -- Drama and documentary : the power of nightmares -- Security and publics : democratic times? -- The irresolution of television.

In this book, Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.

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