Tabloid terror war, culture, and geopolitics François Debrix

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cyberterror and media-induced fears : the tabloid production of emergency culture -- Tabloid realism and the reconstruction of American security culture before 9/11 -- Discourses of war, geographies of abjection : American intellectuals of statecraft and the avenging of 9/11 -- The United States and the war machine : proliferating insecurity, terror, and agony after the invasion of Iraq -- The sublime spectatorship of the Iraq war : America's tabloid aesthetics of violence and the erasure of the event.