Deborah Lynn Jaramillo

Ugly War, Pretty Package

How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept

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Produktbeschreibung

Deborah L. Jaramillo investigates cable news' presentation of the Iraq War in relation to "high concept" filmmaking. High concept films can be reduced to single-sentence summaries and feature pre-sold elements; they were considered financially safe projects that would sustain consumer interest beyond their initial theatrical run. Using high concept as a framework for the analysis of the 2003 coverage of the Iraq War-paying close attention to how Fox News and CNN packaged and promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq-Ugly War, Pretty Package offers a new paradigm for understanding how television news reporting shapes our perceptions of events.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221223
• ISBN-10: 0253221226
• Artikelnr.: 26570220

Autorenporträt

Deborah Jaramillo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Television at Boston University. She is a two-time Ford Fellow and sits on the board of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Spectacle of Televised War
1. High Concept, Media Conglomeration, and Commercial News
2. The High-Concept War Narrative
3. Intertextuality, Genres, and Stars
4. War Characters
5. The Look and Sound of High-Concept War Coverage
6. The Marketing of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Conclusion: The Narrative Exits Screen Right, the Coverage Fizzles, and
News is What, Exactly?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Works Cited
Index