Media, War and Postmodernity

by Philip Hammond

Book Overview

Media, War and Postmodernity

investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for their propaganda value than for any strategic aims.

Discussing the humanitarian interventions of the 1990s and the War on Terror, the book analyzes the rise of a postmodern sensibility in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415374944
• ISBN13: 9780415374941
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"