At War with Metaphor

Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19925902
AutoresErin Steuter (0000-0001-6706-8016), Deborah Wills
Año2009
Páginas268
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAt War with Metaphor: Media Propaganda and Racism in the War on Terror (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialLexington Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/9780739130315
OpenAlexW4407703810
Open LibraryOL16797805M
ISBN9780739130315
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

When photographs documenting the torture and humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib came to the attention of a horrified public, national and international voices were raised in shock, asking how this happened. At War with Metaphor offers an answer, arguing that the abuses of Abu Ghraib were part of a systemic continuum of dehumanization. This continuum has its roots in our public discussions of the war on terror and the metaphors through which they are repeatedly framed. Arguing earnestly and incisively that these metaphors, if left unexamined, bind us into a cycle of violence that will only be intensified by a responsive violence of metaphor, Steuter and Wills examine compelling examples of the images of animal, insect, and disease that inform, shape, and limit our understanding of the war on terror. Tying these images to historical and contemporary uses of propaganda through a readable, accessible analysis of media filters, At War with Metaphor vividly explores how news media, including political cartoons and talk radio, are enmeshed in these damaging, dehumanizing metaphors. Analyzing media through the lenses of race and Orientalism, it invites us to hold our media and ourselves accountable for the choices we make in talking war and making enemies

Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Computer Science · History · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Fear · Mass media · Propaganda · Social aspects · Social control · Terrorism in mass media