Media and the Politics of War

Catalog description

This course uses major media/communication and political science (particularly international relations/postcolonial) theories to examine war and its representations. We rely upon critical analyses of films, documentaries, political speeches, photojournalism and print journalism. In particular, we are interested in how representations of and understandings of war, and the actual launching/theater of war, constitute each other. In addition to the focus on colonialism, occupation, partitions, and the "Cold War," the course will also deconstruct the deployment of the martial metaphor on "terror," "poverty," and "drugs."