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1 online resource (xix, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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Weaponizing words : metaphor and war -- Making enemies : propaganda and the making of the orientalist "other" -- Rallying racism : dehumanization and genocide -- Rats in the trap : animal metaphors in the news -- Infestation and eradication : exterminationist rhetoric in political cartoons -- Hatespeak : discourses of dehumanization in talk radio -- Media march to war : understanding news filters -- Boiling the blood and narrowing the mind : fomenting backlash -- Talking our way to peace : new metaphors for change |
| Summary |
When photographs documenting the torture and humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib came to the attention of a horrified public, national and international voices were raised in shock, asking how this happened. At War with Metaphor offers an answer, arguing that the abuses of Abu Ghraib were part of a systemic continuum of dehumanization. This continuum has its roots in our public discussions of the war on terror and the metaphors through which they are repeatedly framed. Arguing earnestly and incisively that these metaphors, if left unexamined, bind us into a cycle of violence that will only |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media and public opinion.
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Terrorism in mass media.
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Fear.
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Propaganda.
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Social control.
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fear.
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advertising.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Fear
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Mass media and public opinion
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Propaganda
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Social control
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Terrorism in mass media
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Medien -- Terrorismus -- USA.
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Terrorismus -- Medien -- USA.
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Terrorism i massmedia.
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Massmedia -- attityder till.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wills, Deborah, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9780739130315 |
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0739130315 |
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1299761518 |
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9781299761513 |
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