Ground Zero
The City, the Bomb and the End of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895943 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Larabee (corresponding author), Ann E Larabee |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-280 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-02-09 |
| OpenAlex | W1986401294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
At the height of violence during the Persian Gulf War, MacNeil/Lehrer introduced its war coverage with this striking backdrop: a target image with the words "Ground Zero" printed across it. Viewers knew very well what "Ground Zero" was: the ancient, exotic city of Baghdad, where a fairy-tale, dark-skinned demon lurked underground in a hardened bunker, magically avoiding surgical strikes. Despite the Bush administration's high moral ground on civilian casualties, the nuclear referent was omnipresent in wartime's political spectacle. Bush's New World Order, born from neo- conservative proclamations of the end of history, was represented in an archetypal nuclear sign: concentric circles imposed on a city
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |