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Publication details [#49493]
Hall, Rachel. 2007. Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror. The Communication Review 10 (4) : 319–346.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
By carefully exploring mainstream media coverage of the "war on terror", and the visual manifestation of this discourse in U.S. border security procedures, this paper adds to a growing range of commentaries that problematize the actual aesthetic effect of this political and cultural discourse.