TY - BOOK AU - Price,Stuart TI - Brute reality: power, discourse and the mediation of war SN - 9781849641883 AV - HM554 .P75 2010eb U1 - 303.66 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York, NY PB - Pluto KW - War and society KW - Mass media and war KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - Social aspects KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - National security KW - Guerre et société KW - Médias et guerre KW - Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 KW - Aspect social KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Peace KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - gtlm KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329523 ER -