Media Spectacles
by Garber, Marjorie; Matlock, Jann; Walkowitz, Rebecca L.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-07-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events "as" spectacle.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Watching Politics | |
| Body and Soul Murder: JFK | p. 3 |
| Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill and JFK | p. 23 |
| Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics | p. 40 |
| Watching and Authorizing the Gulf War | p. 57 |
| Watching Borders | |
| "No Bad Nigger": Blacks as the Ethical Principle in the Movies | p. 77 |
| Cortez in the Courts: The Traps of Translation from Newsprint to Film | p. 91 |
| Power Shortages: The Soviet Coup and Hurricane Bob | p. 117 |
| Watching Sex | |
| Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Identity, and Gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case | p. 137 |
| Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused | p. 160 |
| Throwing Up/Going Down: Bushusuru; or, The Fall of the West | p. 167 |
| Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs | p. 181 |
| Watching AIDS | |
| Grafting David Cronenberg: Monstrosity, AIDS Media, National/Sexual Difference | p. 209 |
| Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the Plague Metaphor | p. 232 |
| Accommodating Magic | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 267 |
| Contributors | p. 277 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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