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A timely analysis of mass media representations of the ‘War on Terror’ that dismantles the myths and rhetoric used to consolidate western power.

 

 

 

 

Brute Reality:

Power, Discourse And The

Mediation Of War

 

Stuart Price

 

Released March 8th 2010

 

PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745320793 / 230mm x 150mm / 240 pp

 

 

An original, incisive and elegantly written analysis of contemporary warfare, rhetoric and power. Karen Ross, Professor of Media and Public Communication, University of Liverpool

 

This timely and important book dismantles the myths of the war on terror and demonstrates how the rhetoric of terror provides a pretext for the consolidation of state security and the expansion of military power. Brute Reality is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of war, violence and power in the twenty-first century.

Stephen Morton, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton

 

Brute Reality is a fascinating analysis of the attempts by Western countries to justify their increasingly violent

 

foreign-policy agendas and assert the contradictory interests of a transnational elite.

Stuart Price provides a critical insight into a number of influential structures that have helped shape contemporary attitudes to warfare. The book contains a wealth of transcripts and media sources, including Channel Four’s coverage of 9/11 and the rhetorical pronouncements of leading politicians. Beginning with the state of ‘war’ created after the September 11th attacks, Price follows the strategic adjustments begun during the Iraq adventure, and includes reference to the modifications in policy carried out during the Obama Presidency.

 

Students of media, film and journalism will find this book an invaluable resource for the study of power, rhetoric, and mediation.

 

 

Stuart Price is Principal Lecturer in Media, Film and Journalism, at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Discourse Power Address (2007) and a number of books on media and communication,

including Communication Studies (1996). His current research project is based on an analysis of authority and the ‘strategic apprehension’ of disorder.

 

 

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