| #532242 in Books | 2005-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 426 pages||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent exploration of cultural and social identity|By fml66|An incredibly good book. McAlister dissects and analyzes the representations of the Middle East in various media -- movies, news, plays, books, etc. -- and their relationships to the projection of US global power and the shaping of US cultural identity since the end of World War II. As she puts it, her goal is to||PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "At the heart of McAlister's analysis is a brilliant dissection of American 'interest' in the Middle East.... [The book] finally suggests nothing less than a wholesale revision of U.S. history between...the 1950s and the 1990s."--
Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media acco...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945, Updated Edition (American Crossroads) | Melani McAlister. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
