[5.1] What Are Media Representations

[5.2] Representations of Gender, Race, and Class

[5.3] Representations of Different Cultures

[5.4] Studying Media Representations

[5.5] Teaching Analysis of Media Representations

[5.6] Representation and Censorship

[5.7] Representations and Idealization

[5.8] Studying Representations of Social Types or Groups

[5.8a] Representations of Femininity

[5.8b] Masculinity

[5.8c] Masculinity and Sports

[5.8d] Gays / Lesbians

[5.8e] Racial and Ethnic Groups

[5.8f] Class

[5.9] Families and Age Groups

[5.10] War

[5.11] Political Parties and Organizations

[5.12] Counter-Representations

[5.13] Additional Web Resources

[5.14] Teaching Activities

Powerpoints

[5.10.1] Vietnam on Television

[5.10.2] The first motion pictures of a war occurred with the Spanish American War. Tim Dirks, Tim. War and Anti-War Films. The Greatest Films.

[5.10.3] Douglas Kellner, “The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited”

[5.10.4] Matt Wells  (2003) Embedded reporters 'sanitised' Iraq war.  The Guardian

[5.10.5] Daya Thusss and Des Freedman, War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (reviews on Amazon)

[5.10.6] Media representations and the Iraq War

[5.10.7] Iraq Journal: alternative, human images of the Iraq War

[5.10.8]

[5.10.9] Donna Spalding Andréolle, Media Representations of "the Story of 9-11" and the Reconstruction of the American Cultural Imagination

Different films represent war in different ways, with some glorifying war in terms of “winning great victories,” and others portraying more realistic aspects of war in terms of the grim realities of death and destruction:

[5.10.10] Christopher Wisniewski, “The Spectacular War”

[5.10.11] Monbiot, G. (2002). Both saviour and victim: Black Hawk Down creates a new and dangerous myth of American nationhood,” The Guardian

[5.10.12] Christopher Wisniewski, “The Spectacular War”

[5.10.13] An extensive filmography of war films

[5.10.14] Instructional unit: Images at War (Civil War and World War II)

[5.10.15] Film Education: History and Film: representations of World War II

[5.10.16] Film Education: Violence within Context & Genre

[5.10.17] Media Education Foundation: Media and War Series

[5.10.18] Media Education Foundation: Media and Iraq: war coverage analysis