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200 10$aEpic encounters$b[electronic resource] $eculture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East since 1945 /$fMelani McAlister
205   $aUpdated ed., with a post-9/11 chapter.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (430 p.)
225 1 $aAmerican crossroads
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-24499-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface To The 2005 Edition -- $tPreface To The First Edition -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. "Benevolent Supremacy" -- $t2. The Middle East In African American Cultural Politics, 1955-1972 -- $t3. King Tut, Commodity Nationalism, And The Politics Of Oil, 1973-1979 -- $t4. The Good Fight -- $t5. Iran, Islam, And The Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989 -- $t6. Military Multiculturalism In The Gulf War And After, 1990-1999 -- $tConclusion<subtitle 9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tFilmography -- $tIndex
330   $aEpic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book-now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war-Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since-to paraphrase her new preface-we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
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606   $aMass media and public opinion$zUnited States
606   $aPublic opinion$zUnited States
607   $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States
607   $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East
607   $aMiddle East$xForeign public opinion, American
607   $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1945-
610   $a9/11.
610   $aabu ghraib.
610   $aafghani women.
610   $aafghanistan.
610   $aal qaeda.
610   $acounterterrorism.
610   $acultural studies.
610   $aethnic studies.
610   $afireman.
610   $afirst responders.
610   $aforeign policy.
610   $agovernment policy.
610   $aimperialism.
610   $airaq war.
610   $aisis.
610   $aislam.
610   $amedia.
610   $amiddle east.
610   $amilitary.
610   $anew york.
610   $anonfiction.
610   $aoil.
610   $aorientalism.
610   $aosama bin laden.
610   $apolitics.
610   $apopular culture.
610   $arace.
610   $areligion.
610   $areligious extremism.
610   $areligious fundamentalism.
610   $asaddam hussein.
610   $asocial justice.
610   $asociology.
610   $aterrorism.
610   $aterrorist.
610   $aus foreign relations.
610   $awar on terror.
610   $awar.
610   $aworld history.
610   $aworld trade center.
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615  0$aPublic opinion
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