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Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)

Vaheed Ramazani

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Description:The book draws on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives to examine popular, political, legal, and journalistic discourses mediating the War on Terror. The analysis encompasses governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.Dominant motifs include American exceptionalism and its historical affinity for war, the synergy between the technologies of war and media, the role of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network in promoting the American culture of militarism, the dialectic of identification and repulsion in the construction of the enemy, and the political and mediatic normalization of fear. The author explores in particular the role of desire in the rhetorical construction and naturalization of the fantasy of a global War on Terror.Scholars and students alike will take interest in this original contribution to the fields of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, media studies, rhetoric, critical international relations, and international humanitarian law and ethics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics). To get started finding Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The book draws on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives to examine popular, political, legal, and journalistic discourses mediating the War on Terror. The analysis encompasses governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.Dominant motifs include American exceptionalism and its historical affinity for war, the synergy between the technologies of war and media, the role of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network in promoting the American culture of militarism, the dialectic of identification and repulsion in the construction of the enemy, and the political and mediatic normalization of fear. The author explores in particular the role of desire in the rhetorical construction and naturalization of the fantasy of a global War on Terror.Scholars and students alike will take interest in this original contribution to the fields of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, media studies, rhetoric, critical international relations, and international humanitarian law and ethics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics). To get started finding Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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