Pre-Owned Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945 Volume 6 (Paperback) 0520244990 9780520244993

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Pre-Owned Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945 Volume 6 (Paperback) 0520244990 9780520244993

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Title: Pre-Owned Epic Encounters : Culture, Media, and U. S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945 (Paperback) 9780520244993
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 0520244990
EAN: 9780520244993
Author(s): Melani McAlister
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2005
Pre-Owned: Good: Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included.

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Publication date
July, 2005
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426
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Political Science

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Epic 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.

Title: Pre-Owned Epic Encounters : Culture, Media, and U. S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945 (Paperback) 9780520244993
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 0520244990
EAN: 9780520244993
Author(s): Melani McAlister
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2005
Pre-Owned: Good: Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included.

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Publication date

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