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The Discourse of Propaganda - Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror (Hardcover)
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The Discourse of Propaganda - Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror (Hardcover)
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In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait
allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their
incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious
reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support
for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda, John Oddo
examines these and other such cases to show how successful wartime
propaganda functions as a discursive process. Oddo argues that
propaganda is more than just misleading rhetoric generated by one
person or group; it is an elaborate process that relies on
recontextualization, ideally on a massive scale, to keep it alive
and effective. In a series of case studies, he analyzes both
textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social and material
conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how instances of
propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in diverse
contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular, everyday
discourse. By revealing the agents, (inter)texts, and cultural
practices involved in propaganda campaigns, The Discourse of
Propaganda shines much-needed light on the topic and challenges its
readers to consider the complicated processes that allow propaganda
to flourish. This book will appeal not only to scholars of rhetoric
and propaganda but also to those interested in unfolding the
machinations motivating America's recent military interventions.
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