A violent world : TV news images of Middle Eastern terror and war

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    • Ben-Shaul, Nitzan

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A violent world : TV news images of Middle Eastern terror and war

Nitzan Ben-Shaul

(Critical media studies)

Rowman & Littlefield, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Images are the core of television news, particularly in the coverage of terror events and war, where pictures often overwhelm the verbal commentary. A Violent World analyzes images on global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute heavily to how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan Ben-Shaul draws from critical media theory, and from qualitative and aesthetic approaches out of cinema studies, to examine how dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news. Specifically, he focuses on the American elites' global ideology and the conflicting dominant national-peripheral ideologies of Israeli-Palestinian elites. His in-depth study, of particular interest to scholars of Middle East studies and international communication, further offers a new model of analysis for contemporary television news.

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Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Historical and Theoretical Background Chapter 3 1 The Political Economy of Globalization Chapter 4 2 U.S. Global Ideologies and Israeli/Palestinian National Ideologies Chapter 5 3 Television News Audiovisual Ideological Frames Chapter 6 4 Competing Macro-Frames Part 7 Part II: Micro-Frame Case Studies Chapter 8 5 Reports on al Qaeda Terror and the U.S.-Led "War against Terror" Chapter 9 6 The al Aksa Intifada Chapter 10 7 Summary Discussion of Case Studies Chapter 11 Bibliography

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