Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective

by Herbert Schiller, George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana

Book Overview

THE TRIUMPH OF IMAGE over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813316103
• ISBN13: 9780813316109
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"