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First Ladies And The Fourth Estate : Press Framing Of Presidential Wives

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Lisa M. BurnsPublication Details
BookNorthern Illinois University Press2008Description
Through press coverage, U.S. first ladies have become some of the most prominent and recognized figures in American politics. In First Ladies and the Fourth Estate, Burns analyzes the coverage of presidents wives in five leading newspapers and magazines The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and McCall’s to prove that the press has helped shape the first lady institution as well as influence the changing social and political roles of American women. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E176.2 .B86 2008 AVAILABLE
Branding New York : How A City In Crisis Was Sold To The World

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by Miriam GreenbergPublication Details
BookRoutledge2008Description
Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. She shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities, New York University “I love New York. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HF5827.6 .G74 2008 AVAILABLE
Emmett Till And The Mississippi Press

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Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy ; foreword by Keith A. BeauchampPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Mississippi2008Links
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Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press provides a careful examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial s conclusion as reported by the state s newspapers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.93.M6 H59 2008 AVAILABLE
Hated Ideas And The American Civil War Press

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Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Giovanna Dell’OrtoPublication Details
BookMarquette Books LLC2008Description
Do Journalists Embrace Hated Ideas? In this book, media historians Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Giovanna Dell Orto find some of the answers by analyzing newspaper coverage of hated ideas such as abolitionism to some and slavery to others during the American Civil War. [T]he Civil War experience underscores the fact that marginalized ideas across history have persisted, often to become accepted as part of mainstream culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E609 .D53 2008 AVAILABLE
Public Executions : The Death Penalty And The Media

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Christopher S. KudlacPublication Details
Book1st pubPraeger2007Links
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Kudlac covers such celebrated cases as Karla Faye Tucker, Timothy McVeigh, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, and others that captured the attention of the American public and affected public opinion about the death penalty through the help of the media. With new investigative techniques that have helped to exonerate some death row inmates, and various other considerations that have come into play in recent cases, the future of the death penalty will continue to be shaped by the media and the public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV8699.U6 K83 2007 AVAILABLE
Death Row Women : Murder, Justice, And The New York Press

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Mark GadoPublication Details
BookPraeger Publishers2008Description
During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. The tales of these death row women shed light on the death penalty as it applies to women and the role of the media in both the trials and executions of these convicts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6517 .G33 2008 AVAILABLE
Women As Weapons Of War : Iraq, Sex, And The Media

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Kelly OliverPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2007Description
The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore the literal explosion of women onto the war scene should come as no surprise. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals how the media and the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) U21.75 .O43 2007 DUE 12-15-09
Media In An American Crisis : Studies Of September 11, 2001
Scottsboro And Its Legacy : The Cases That Challenged American Legal And Social Justice

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James R. AckerPublication Details
BookPraeger2008Description
Using extensive media reports, including contemporaneous newspaper accounts and interpretations of the proceedings, as well as the sallies of champions of various organizations and social causes, the author illustrates the role of the media in the cases and the effect the cases had on society at the time. It examines several issues relevant to the cases that, even today, have enduring significance to law and popular perceptions of justice, including capital punishment, racial discrimination, innocence, the composition and functioning of trial juries, the quality of legal counsel for indigents, evidentiary issues in rape cases, and media interactions with the courts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) KF224.S34 A25 2008 AVAILABLE
Dispatches From The Color Line : The Press And Multiracial America

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Catherine R. SquiresPublication Details
BookState University of New York Press2007Links
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Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN4888.R3 S68 2007 AVAILABLE
War Made Easy How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death

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a presentation of the Institute for Public Accuracy ; a Media Education Foundation production ; written and directed by Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp ; produced by Loretta AlperPublication Details
VideoDisinformation Co. Ltd2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) PN4784.W37 W37 2008 AVAILABLE
Buying The War

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writers, Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hughes ; producer/director, Kathleen Hughes ; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New YorkPublication Details
VideoFilms for the Humanities & Sciences2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) DS79.76 .B893 2007 AVAILABLE
(Un)civil War Of Words : Media And Politics In The Arab World

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Mamoun FandyPublication Details
BookPraeger Security International2007Links
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Fandy examines the impact that these and other news organizations have had on the war on terror, on the Arab world, and on the relationships that Arab nations share with each other, as well as those they share with the West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) P96.W362 A654 2007 AVAILABLE
Picturing China In The American Press : The Visual Portrayal Of Sino-American Relations In Time Magazine, 1949-1973

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David D. PerlmutterPublication Details
BookLexington Books2007Links
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Picturing China is the first postDCold War intensive study comparing and contrasting press coverage of an important period in East-West relations to the what we know now of archival history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN4888.C54 P47 2007 AVAILABLE
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