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Covering bin Laden : global media and the world's most wanted man / edited by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Urbana : University of Illionois Press, 2015Description: xxxvii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780252080401
  • 025203886X
  • 0252080408
  • 9780252038860
  • 9780252096822
  • 0252096827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 363.325160973
Contents:
Introduction: After bin Laden / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait -- Bin Laden's ghost and the epistemological crises of counterterrorism / Richard Jackson -- The discursive portrayals of Osama bin Laden / Aditi Bhatia -- The bin Laden tapes / Andrew Hill -- Words and war: Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda / Courtney C. Radsch -- Metaphorizing terrorism: Al Qaeda in German and British tabloids / Alexander Spencer -- The myth of the terrorist as a lover: competing regional media frames / Noha Mellor -- Images of our dead enemies: visual representations of bin Laden, Hussein, and el-Qaddafi / Susan Moeller, Joanna Nurmis, and Saranaz Barforoush -- Without Osama: Tere bin Laden and the critique of the War on Terror / Purnima Bose -- Obama bin Laden [sic]: how to win the War on Terror #likeaboss / Ryan Croken -- Congratulations! You have killed Osama bin Laden!! / Simon Ferrari -- Muslims in America and the post-9/11 terrorism debates: media and public opinion / Brigitte L. Nacos -- Epilogue: After bin Laden: Zero Dark Thirty / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: After bin Laden / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait -- Bin Laden's ghost and the epistemological crises of counterterrorism / Richard Jackson -- The discursive portrayals of Osama bin Laden / Aditi Bhatia -- The bin Laden tapes / Andrew Hill -- Words and war: Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda / Courtney C. Radsch -- Metaphorizing terrorism: Al Qaeda in German and British tabloids / Alexander Spencer -- The myth of the terrorist as a lover: competing regional media frames / Noha Mellor -- Images of our dead enemies: visual representations of bin Laden, Hussein, and el-Qaddafi / Susan Moeller, Joanna Nurmis, and Saranaz Barforoush -- Without Osama: Tere bin Laden and the critique of the War on Terror / Purnima Bose -- Obama bin Laden [sic]: how to win the War on Terror #likeaboss / Ryan Croken -- Congratulations! You have killed Osama bin Laden!! / Simon Ferrari -- Muslims in America and the post-9/11 terrorism debates: media and public opinion / Brigitte L. Nacos -- Epilogue: After bin Laden: Zero Dark Thirty / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait.

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