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Week 1: Introduction
Supplemental reading
Alfred
E. Cornebisem Ranks and Columns: Armed
Forces Newspapers in American Wars (1993)
Carl Berger, Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War
of the American Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1976)
Scott Cutlip, The Unseen Power: Public Relations, A History
(Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994)
Michael Emery, On the Front Lines: Following
William Graebner, The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and
Authority in 20th Century
Reporting
America at War: An Oral History, Michelle Ferrari, compiler (
Philip
Seib, ed. Media and Conflict in the 21st
Century (Palgrave, 2005)
A.
Trevor Thrall, War in the Media Age (
World War I
Video 2427: Moyers, “The
Image Makers”
Supplemental
reading
Leslie Midkiff
DeBauche, Reel Patriotism: The Movies and
World War I (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)
Robert C.
Hilderbrand, Power and the People:
Executive Leadership of Public Opinion in Foreign Affairs, 1897-1921 (1981)
James R. Mock and
Cedric Larson, Words That Won the War:
The Story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919 (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1939)
H.C. Peterson, Propaganda for War: The Campaign Against
American Neutrality, 1914-1917 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939)
Daniel Pope, The Making of Modern Advertising (1983)
Wayne A. Wiegand, An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During
World War I (New York: Greenwood, 1989)
World War II:
Radio: “War of the Worlds”
(personal collection)
Film propaganda
Video 2428 “The Propaganda
Video 5605 “The Propaganda
Wars (A&E version, 1994)
Video 5593 “Goebbels: Master
of Propaganda” (1998) (
Why We Fight Series (Capra)
Video 177: Prelude to War
(1949)
Video 332:
Video 4898: The Black Press:
Soldiers Without Swords (1998)
Supplemental reading
Jordan
Braverman, To Hasten the Homecoming: How
Americans Found World War II Through the Media (1996)
Susan A. Brewer, To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the
Nicholas John Cull, Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign
Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Maxcy Robson
Dickson, The Food Front in World War I (Washington:
American Council on Public Affairs, 1944)
John
C. Edwards,
Frank W. Fox, Madison Avenue Goes to War: The Strange Military Career of American
Advertising, 1941-45 (1975)
Robert Fyne, The
Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender
and Propaganda During World War II (Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1984)
Clayton R. Koppes
and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to
War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Clayton
D. Laurie, The Propaganda Warriors:
Charles Lewis and
John Neville, "Images of Rosie: A Content Analysis of Women Workers in
American Magazine Advertising, 1940-1946," Journalism Quarterly 72:1 (Spring 1995):
216-227.
Deborah Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the
Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (New York: Free Press, 1986)
Peter Maslowski, Armed With Camera: The American Military
Photographers of World War II (New York: Free Press, 1993)
Timothy Olmstead, “Nikkei Internment: The
Perspectives of Two
George Roeder, The Censored War: American Visual Experience
During World War II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
Holly Cowan
Schulman, The Voice of
Nancy Caldwell
Sorel, The Women who Wrote the War
(1999)
James Tobin, Ernie Pyle's War:
Frederick S. Voss, Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage
of World War II (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994)
Korea/Cold War
Video 4943 “The Commies are
coming! The Commies are coming!” Department of Defense/Hollywood (Jack Webb)
Murrow PBS documentary
(personal copy)
Supplemental reading
James Aronson, The Press and the Cold War (1980)
Leo Bogart, Cool Words, Cold War: A New Look at USIA's
Premise for Propaganda (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995)
David Everitt, A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist
in Radio and Television (
Walter L. Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and
the Cold War, 1945-61 (New York: St. Martin's, 1997)
Louis
Liebovich, The Press and the Origins of the Cold War,
1944-1947 (New York: Praeger, 1988)
J. Fred MacDonald, Television and the Red Menace (1985)
Arthur Meyerhoff, The Strategy of
Persuasion: Use of Advertising Skills in the Cold War (1965)
John F. Neville, The Press, the
Guy Oakes, The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and the
American Cold War Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Michael
Whitney Straight, Trial by Television
(Beacon Press, 1954)
Vietnam War
CBS/PBS documentary footage
(personal collection)
Supplemental reading
Michael Anderegg, Inventing
Peter Braestrup, Big Story: How the American Press and
Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of TET 1968 in
Virginia
Elwood-Akers, Women War Correspondents in
the Vietnam War, 1961-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988)
Daniel
Hallin, The 'Uncensored War': The Media and
William M. Hammond, Public Affairs: The Military and the Media,
1968-1973 (Washington, D.C: Center for Military History, GPO, 1996)
Martin F. Herz, The Prestige Press and the Christmas Bombing,
1972: Images and Reality in
John D. Mueller, War
Presidents and Public Opinion (1973) See also
Mueller, “The Iraq Syndrome,” Foreign
Affairs (2005)
William W. Prochnau, Once Upon a Distant War (New York: Times
Books, 1996)
David Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the
Pentagon Papers Case (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
Melvin Small, Covering Dissent: The Media and the
Anti-Vietnam War Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
1994)
Kathleen J. Turner, President Johnson's Dual War:
War torn
: stories of war from the women reporters who covered
Clarence
Wyatt, Paper Soldiers: The American Press
and the Vietnam War (1993)
Gulf War I
Daniel C. Hallin, “Images of
the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars on U.S. television,” in Lauren Rabinovitz
and Susan Jeffords, eds., Seeing Through
the Media: The Persian Gulf War (Rutgers, 1994), 45-58.
H. Bruce Franklin, “From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images
of America’s Wars,” ,” in Lauren Rabinovitz and Susan Jeffords, eds., Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf
War (Rutgers, 1994), 25-44.
Margot Norrison, “Only the Guns have Eyes: Military Censorship
and the Body Count,” in Lauren Rabinovitz and Susan Jeffords, eds., Seeing Through the Media:
The Persian Gulf War (
Video 3777 “Uneasy partners:
the press and the military” CBS, 1996.
Bosnia/Interventions
Video 3210 “No Man’s Land:
Women Frontline Correspondents” 1994 (
Cinny Kennard and Sheila T. Murphy, “Characteristics of War
Coverage by Female Correspondents,” in Philip Seib, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan,
2007): 127-140. Found both quantitative and qualitative gender differences,
including more coverage of victims, human side of war.
Supplemental reading
Nik
Gowing, Real-Time Television Coverage of
Armed Conflicts and Diplomatic Crises: Does it Pressure or Distort Foreign Policy
Decisions? (1994)
Miles
Hudson and John Stanier, War and the
Media: A Random Searchlight (1997)
Richard Keeble,
William V. Kennedy, The Military and the Media: Wny the Press
Cannot be Trusted to Cover a War (1993)
Jonathon Mermin, Debating
War and Peace: Media Coverage of Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era (1999)
Johanna
Neuman, Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?
(1996)
Susan
D. Moeller, Compassion Fatigue: How the
Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death (1999)
Nel
Ruigrok and others, “News Coverage of the Bosnian War in Dutch Newspapers,” in
Philip Seib, ed. Media and Conflict in
the Twenty-first Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 157-183.
James
J. Sadkovich, The
Albrecht
Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur, eds. Kosovo
and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation,
Collective Action, and Individual Citizenship (United Nations, 2000.)
Jacqueline Sharkey, Under Fire:
Martin
Shaw, Civil Society and Media in Global
Crises: Representing Distant Violence (1996)
Philip
M. Taylor, War and the Media: Propaganda
and Persuasion in the Gulf War (1992)
Terrorism,
War and the Press, Nancy Palmer. ed. (Harvard, 2003)
Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Press and the
American Public (Johns
Prelude to
Robin Brown, “Getting to War:
Communications and Mobilization in the 2002-03 Iraq Crisis,”
in Media and Conflict in the Twenty-first
Century,” in Philip Seib,
ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 57-81. Overview of policy
debate, themes of Bush decisions, but not much communications analysis.
Frank Rich, The
Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of
Truth in Bush’s America (Penguin, 2007). Chronology of White House press
statements, evaluated.