Media Spectacles

, by Garber, Marjorie; Matlock, Jann; Walkowitz, Rebecca L.

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ISBN: 9780415907507 | 0415907500
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Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events "as" spectacle.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Watching Politics
Body and Soul Murder: JFK	p. 3
Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill and JFK	p. 23
Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics	p. 40
Watching and Authorizing the Gulf War	p. 57
Watching Borders
"No Bad Nigger": Blacks as the Ethical Principle in the Movies	p. 77
Cortez in the Courts: The Traps of Translation from Newsprint to Film	p. 91
Power Shortages: The Soviet Coup and Hurricane Bob	p. 117
Watching Sex
Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Identity, and Gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case	p. 137
Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused	p. 160
Throwing Up/Going Down: Bushusuru; or, The Fall of the West	p. 167
Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs	p. 181
Watching AIDS
Grafting David Cronenberg: Monstrosity, AIDS Media, National/Sexual Difference	p. 209
Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the Plague Metaphor	p. 232
Accommodating Magic	p. 255
Index	p. 267
Contributors	p. 277
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