000			01494nam a2200217 i 4500
008			240120s2007 xx 001 0 und d
020			_a9-780415-37494-1 _cpbk
040			_aGCL
082			_a303.66 _bHAM
100	1	0	_aHammond, Philip
245	1	0	_aMedia War and Post Modernity / _cPhilip Hammond
260			_bRoutledge, _aLondon : _c2007.
300			_a175 pages : _bpbk. _c22 cm.
336			_atext _brdacontent _2text
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aincludes index.
520			_aMedia, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for their propaganda value than for any strategic aims. Discussing the humanitarian interventions of the 1990s and the War on Terror, the book analyzes the rise of a postmodern sensibility in domestic and international politics, and explores how the projection of power abroad is undermined by a lack of cohesion and purpose at home. Drawing together debates from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, Philip Hammond argues that contemporary warfare may be understood as 'postmodern' in that it is driven by the collapse of grand narratives in Western societies and constitutes an attempt to recapture a sense of purpose and meaning.
650			_aMass Communication
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