in Journalism and Mass Communication
Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror. Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. 249 pp.
The cover art of Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror might lead the reader to believe that the book will examine American pop culture for military influences. Instead, the book offers a subjective look into U.S. domestic and foreign policy and the motivation behind America’s wars. [Read more...]
At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror. Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 244 pp.
Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, who teach sociology and English at Canada’s Mount Allison University, are commited to raising the level of public understanding about the role that media play in bringing people into and through a seemingly endless string of wars. Although this book is focused primarily on U.S. media constructions of the so-called “War on Terror,” its emphasis on the role that metaphor plays in the strategic “othering” of countless enemies helps to establish the historical roots of this discursive practice. [Read more...]
