| Description |
xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Body and soul murder : JFK / Michael Rogin -- Character assassination : Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK / Marjorie Garber -- Reproducing reality : Murphy Brown and illegitimate politics / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Watching and authorizing the Gulf War / Elaine Scarry -- "No bad nigger" : Blacks as the ethical principle in the movies / K. Anthony Appiah -- Cortez in the courts : the traps of translation from newsprint to film / Doris Sommer -- Power shortages : the Soviet coup and Hurricane Bob / Svetlana Boym -- Scandals of naming : the blue blob, identity, and gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case / Jann Matlock -- Lesbian spectacles : reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The accused / Barbara Johnson -- Throwing up/going down : Bushusuru; or, the fall of the West / Lee Edelman -- Monsters of perversion : Jeffrey Dahmer and The silence of the lambs / Diana Fuss. |
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Grafting David Cronenberg : monstrosity, AIDS media, nation/sexual difference / Andrew Parker -- Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the plague metaphor / Katharine Park -- Accommodating Magic / Douglas Crimp. |
| Subject |
Mass media -- United States.
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Mass media. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
Mass media |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Garber, Marjorie B.
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Matlock, Jann, 1955-
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Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
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| ISBN |
0415907500 hardback |
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0415907519 paperback |
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