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From victory to defeat --
The Great War and the fight between good and evil : the birth of war propaganda --
The good fight : from the first draft to the grand narrative --
The Korean War : remembering the forgotten --
Vietnam : shattered illusions --
Eyes wide shut : the not-so-secret wars of Central America and the Caribbean --
Visions of instability : telling stories on television news --
The problem of seeing and believing : empathy, denial and war's human costs --
The office of public diplomacy : creating fear and favor --
Invading Grenada : Entebbe-style rescue, or the first preemptive strike? --
Oliver North : the war hero and the scandal --
Dover Air Force Base, press pools and the Panama invasion --
The first Persian Gulf war : the battle over access, video game imagery and smart bombs --
Trading the first amendment to defeat the "Vietnam syndrome" --
Consuming the Persian Gulf War : from baby incubators to patriot missiles --
CNN : 24 hours of war --
How the war was remembered : from Courage under fire to Saving Private Ryan --
Terrorism, censorship and patriotism : re-scripting victory culture --
From tragedy to war after 9/11 --
Black Hawk down : the new logics of war and representation --
The Iraq "reality" war : embeds and militainment --
The military-entertainment complex : permanent war and the digital spectacular --
Of smart weapons, civilian casualties and the crimes of war : the whole world (except the United States) is watching --
The "entertainer-in chief" and the Downing Street memos --
The unraveling : the ghost of Vietnam and the soldiers "over there." |
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