Description: Our relationship with the pastwhether judgment, celebration, commemoration or denialhas become an important part of public culture. This book explores the relationship between televisual communication and memoryfocusing on the conflicts that have disrupted and changed our world over the past 50 yearswith particular reference to the current war in Iraq.
Review Quotes: British intellectual Andrew Hoskins new book Televising War is a must read. Hoskins study of television s dependence on the image as its bread and butter provides a nuanced analysis of the recent shift in public opinion regarding Iraq. Televising War provides a considered, measured dissection as a rebuke to T.V. s sensationalism New York Press, 6/21/04 6/27/04