Communicating Unreality: Modern Media and the Reconstruction of Reality

by Gabriel Weimann

Book Overview

Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community, and identity, he demonstrates that there is often a large gap between reality and the reconstruction of "realities" as communicated by the mass media.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761919864
• ISBN13: 9780761919865
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"