Rhetoric, fantasy, and the war on terror / Vaheed Ramazani.

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Politiska förhållanden  (sao)

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.  (LCSH)

Rhetoric and psychology.  (LCSH)

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

Rhetoric  -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century. (LCSH)

Psychological aspects  (fast)

Rhetoric and psychology  (fast)

War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media  (fast)

Politics and government  -- Press coverage (fast)

Rhetoric  -- Political aspects (fast)

Terrorismbekämpning  -- i massmedia (sao)

Terrorismbekämpning  -- psykologiska aspekter (sao)

Retorik  -- politiska aspekter -- historia (sao)

Terrorismbekämpning  -- i pressen (sao)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States  -- Politics and government -- Press coverage. (LCSH)

United States  (fast)

2000-talet  (sao)

2000-2099  (fast)

Genre

History  (fast)

Klassifikation

363.32517 (DDC)

Oclb (kssb/8 (machine generated))