Media SpectaclesMarjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz 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. |
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