The discourse of propaganda : case studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror / John Oddo
Publication details: Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2018 Description: 289 p. : il. bl. y n. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780271081175Subject(s): Propaganda política | Política de defensaAbstract: 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.