1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786359503321

Autore

Sheinin David

Titolo

Consent of the damned [[electronic resource] ] : ordinary Argentinians in the dirty war / / David M. K. Sheinin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012

ISBN

0-8130-4300-X

0-8130-4259-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

982.06

982.064

Soggetti

Political persecution - Argentina - History - 20th century

National socialism - Moral and ethical aspects - Argentina

Political violence - Argentina - History - 20th century

Human rights - Argentina - History - 20th century

Argentina Politics and government 20th century

Argentina Military policy 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: How unpopular was the Argentine dictatorship? -- Dictatorship, media, and message -- "A correct, hermeneutic reading": fantasies of a constitutional coup and the promotion of indigenous -- Rights -- The Frank War, the fabrication of an ongoing menace, and the Jews -- Democracy and the (re)shaping of human rights politics -- Finding a cynical center -- Epilogue: Saving Jorge Omar Merengo.

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the way the Argentinian military dictatorship was able to commit human rights abuses because it was abetted by the willingness of Argentine civilians to either ignore or either assist their perpetration.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791665503321

Titolo

Communicating in Canada's past : essays in media history / / edited by Gene Allen and Daniel J. Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9700-8

1-4426-9735-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

302.230971

Soggetti

Mass media and history - Canada

Mass media - Canada - History

Kanada

Canada

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.

Nota di contenuto

The Catholic press: a challenge to the 'journalism of information' paradigm / Dominique Marquis -- Old media, new media, and competition: Canadian press and the emergence of radio news / Gene Allen -- Britishness, the BBC, and the birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928-1936 / Simon J. Potter -- 'The luxury of moderate use': Seagram and moderation advertising, 1934-1955 / Daniel J. Robinson -- Evelyn Dick, soap star: newspaper coverage of the torso murder case, 1946-1947 / Alison Jacques -- Variety show as national identity: CBC television and Dominion Day celebrations, 1958-1980 / Matthew Hayday -- Politics? Fear not! The rise of The average superhero in the visual rhetoric of Bill Davis's 1971 election pamphlet / James Cairns -- Whence and whither: the historiography of Canadian broadcasting / Mary Vipond -- Recent trends in research on the history of the press in Quebec: towards a cultural history / Fernande Roy -- Encounters with theory / Paul Rutherford.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in



Canada.