| Description |
1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : the composition of the 'terror war' -- From the 'War on Terror' to 'overseas contingency operations' -- War, terror and the real -- Media and the reproduction of meaning -- Surveillance, authority and linguistic categories -- Film, bureaucracy and the gendered protagonist -- Economic transformation, protest and the state -- Conclusion : democracy and the terror war. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
War and society.
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Mass media and war.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects.
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Power (Social sciences)
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National security -- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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War. (OCoLC)fst01170328
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Price, Stuart, 1958- Brute reality. London ; New York, NY : Pluto, ©2010 9780745320809 (OCoLC)456839166 |
| ISBN |
9781849641883 (electronic bk.) |
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1849641889 (electronic bk.) |
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