Covering Bin Laden Susan Jeffords, Fahed Al-Sumait / Susan Jeffords, Fahed Al-Sumait
01/2015
eBook
Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ...ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further al-Qaida's ends. In Covering Bin Laden , editors Susan Jeffords and Fahed Yahya Al-Sumait collect perspectives from global scholars exploring a startling premise: that media depictions of Bin Laden not only diverge but often contradict each other, depending on the media provider and format, the place in which the depiction is presented, and the viewer's political and cultural background. The contributors analyze the representations of the many Bin Ladens, ranging from Al Jazeera broadcasts to video games. They examine the media's dominant role in shaping our understanding of terrorists and why/how they should be feared, and they engage with the ways the mosaic of Bin Laden images and narratives have influenced policies and actions around the world. Contributors include Fahed Al-Sumait, Saranaz Barforoush, Aditi Bhatia, Purnima Bose, Ryan Croken, Simon Ferrari, Andrew Hill, Richard Jackson, Susan Jeffords, Joanna Margueritte-Giecewicz, Noha Mellor, Susan Moeller, Brigitte Nacos, Courtney C. Radsch, and Alexander Spencer.
From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The ...anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview."—Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.
Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--and explored their neighborhood--collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell ...the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From the "necking" battles of mate-hungry giraffes to the breathtaking beauty of millions of monarch butterflies at rest, Jeffords and Post share 200 stunning photographs and their own insightful essays to guide readers on a spectacular journey. Their training as entomologists offers unique perspectives on surprise stag beetle swarms and spider hunting habits. Their photographic eye, honed by decades of observation, finds expression in once-in-a-lifetime images. The result is an eyewitness collection of startling and unusual phenomena that illuminates the diverse life inhabiting our planet.
It is perhaps because neither East nor West Germany was able to outright contest its affiliation with democatic or communist economic or political systems during the post-World War II era, that the ...primary locations of contestation were in terms of the more familiar issues of family: fatherhood, adolescent rebellion, parenting, and discipline. These elements of German family life during this period are analyzed.
Friendly Civilians SUSAN JEFFORDS
Film Genre Reader IV,
12/2012
Book Chapter
Art historian John Berger once observed that in western culture generally, “a man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman’s presence … defines what can ...and cannot be done to her.”¹ This ideological dynamic operates in a particularly interesting way in U.S. films about the Vietnam War, for it identifies not only aspects of representation but also the positioning of the spectator in relation to visual culture. To explore this dynamic, I will look in this essay at how U.S. films about the Vietnam War construct representations of women.² Specifically,
Both "'Foreign Affairs' after World War II" and "He-Men and Christian Mothers" show the usefulness of analyzing gender relations when studying the cultural dynamics underlying and informing the ...formation of national and international US policies. They also indicate the complex interrelationships that exist between gender and US national policies.
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