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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463068503321

Titolo

Shame, blame, and culpability : crime and violence in the modern state / / edited by Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva and David Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-11062-5

1-136-27546-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

MuravyevaMarianna

NashDavid (David S.)

RowbothamJudith

Disciplina

152.4/4

Soggetti

Shame

Blame

Crime

Violence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theorising shame -- pt. II. Rethinking blame -- pt. III. Issues of authority in shame, blame and culpability.

Sommario/riassunto

This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from familiar locations in western Europe. Ranging from the early modern to the late twentieth century, the collection has implications for how we understand punishments imposed by states or the community today.Shame, blame and culpability is divided into three sections, with a crucial case stu



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459671303321

Autore

Rutherford Paul <1944->

Titolo

Weapons of mass persuasion : marketing the war against Iraq / / Paul Rutherford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4426-2348-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

956.7044/38

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011

War in mass media

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Public opinion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Marketing's Moment -- TWO The War Debate -- THREE Managing War -- FOUR Real-Time War -- FIVE Consuming War -- six Perceptions of War -- SEVEN The Phallic Dimension -- EIGHT The Propaganda State -- Postscript: Summer/Fall 2003 -- APPENDIX Consumer Voices / Citizens' Panel -- Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With nearly sixty percent of Americans initially against a pre-emptive war without sanction from the United Nations, and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations of the world, the 2003 war against Iraq quickly became an enormous public relations challenge for the George W. Bush administration. The subject of Weapons of Mass Persuasion is a war in which American patriotism became so mired in commercial jingoism that the demarcations between entertainment and political conduct disappeared completely.In this engaging and disturbing book, Paul Rutherford shows how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out. He argues that not only was the campaign a new chapter in the presentation of real-time war as pop culture, but that its deeper implications have now



come to constitute part of the history of modern democracy. Situating the war against Iraq within an existing tradition of war as narrative, spectacle, and, more broadly, commodity, Rutherford offers a brief overview of the history of civic advertising and propaganda, then examines in detail the different dimensions of three weeks of war presented to North Americans as it became a branded conflict, processed and cleansed to appeal to the well-established tastes of veteran consumers of popular culture.Including incisive analyses of visual material - speeches, editorial cartoons, and media political commentary, but particularly news reports of such sound bite events as the bombing of Baghdad, the toppling of the Hussein statue, and the rescue of captured soldier Private Jessica Lynch - as well as extensive polling data from around the world and interviews with the actual consumers of war, Weapons of Mass Persuasion chronicles the making of a Hollywood war: fast-paced and heroic, pitting the forces of good against the forces of evil to achieve a triumphant, sanitized, and commodified outcome. Not since Naomi Klein's No Logo have the gods of marketing and the art of commercialism been so thoroughly disrobed. Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder.