Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept
Author:   Deborah L. Jaramillo
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253221223


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 September 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Deborah L. Jaramillo
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780253221223


ISBN 10:   0253221226
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 September 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Spectacle of Televised War 1. High Concept, Media Conglomeration, and Commercial News 2. The High-Concept War Narrative 3. Intertextuality, Genres, and Stars 4. War Characters 5. The Look and Sound of High-Concept War Coverage 6. The Marketing of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq Conclusion: The Narrative Exits Screen Right, the Coverage Fizzles, and News is What, Exactly? Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Works Cited Index

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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


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. -Choice, May 2010 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


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Deborah Jaramillo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Television at Boston University. She is a two-time Ford Fellow and sits on the board of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

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