Publications

Publication details [#52598]

Handley, Robert L. 2008. Israeli Image Repair: Recasting the Deviant Actor to Retell the Story. Journal of Communication Inquiry 32 (2) : 140–154.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural anthropology | hegemony | image | news reporting | repair

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study discusses how elite U.S. print reporters, covering two Arab Israeli and one Jewish Israeli terrorist attack against Israeli citizens, repaired only the Jewish Israeli 'citizen' image, thus re-invoking the hegemonic narrative that Arabs attack Israelis.