The Gulf War Did Not Happen - Jeffrey Walsh

This interdisciplinary collection of essays breaks new ground in studying the complex relationships between the historical Gulf war of 199091, and those myths, narratives and extended images commonly drawn upon to explain it. Such a distinctive mode of enquiry reveals the ideological symmetry political debate and popular culture, or between foreign policy and artistic production. A linking theme running through the volume is the shadow of Vietnam, how the Gulf war was perhaps the culminating event in what has come to be known as the Vietnam syndrome. - - As well as focusing upon the central role of mass media the contributors address issues and events that are not usually treated in the same political and historical context, for example, popular music, comic books, war memorials, anti-war expression, literature, and the effects of war upon language. - - These essays will be of great interest for students of history, politics, oriental and Middle Eastern studies and media studies.