title: The U.S. Media and the Middle East: Image and Perception (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications)
author: Yahya Kamalipour
description: "Hats off to Professor Kamalipour for bringing us...a collection of writings that examine the phenomenon of media stereotyping. Reading this book, one becomes aware of a lack of objectivity and balance among the news and entertainment media....The U.S. Media and the Middle East makes excellent reading for a number of courses: Yes, for the International Communication course, but also for the Media and Society or Media Ethics courses. It should also be helpful to scholars studying media images of 'others, ' as well as to students of medial performance and media criticism."-International Communication Bulletin<br /><br />"The book is...a valuable production. We complement the editor on his success in highlighting a few sensitive issues that are significant in their own right."-International Studies Journal<br /><br />"Taken together, the two books under review shed much light on some aspects of the media's relationship with civil society and the foreign policy establishment."-Journal of Palestine Studies<br /><br />"The work seeks to explore not only how stereotypes of Islam and the Middle East are transmitted by the mass media, but also how such portrayals shape the civic perception of, US policy towards, and US actions in the region."-Middle East Journal<br /><br />?The book is...a valuable production. We complement the editor on his success in highlighting a few sensitive issues that are significant in their own right.?-International Studies Journal<br /><br />?Taken together, the two books under review shed much light on some aspects of the media's relationship with civil society and the foreign policy establishment.?-Journal of Palestine Studies<br /><br />?The work seeks to explore not only how stereotypes of Islam and the Middle East are transmitted by the mass media, but also how such portrayals shape the civic perception of, US policy towards, and US actions in the region.?-Middle East Journal<br /><br />?Hats off to Professor Kamalipour for bringing us...a collection of writings that examine the phenomenon of media stereotyping. Reading this book, one becomes aware of a lack of objectivity and balance among the news and entertainment media....The U.S. Media and the Middle East makes excellent reading for a number of courses: Yes, for the International Communication course, but also for the Media and Society or Media Ethics courses. It should also be helpful to scholars studying media images of 'others, ' as well as to students of medial performance and media criticism.?-International Communication Bulletin
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  THE PANOPTIC SORT 
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  Critical Studies in Communication 
  and in the Cultural Industries 
  Herbert I. Schiller, Series Editor 
  The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information, 
  Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. 
  Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf-A Global Perspective, 
  edited by Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller 
  The Persian Gulf TV War, Douglas Kellner 
  Mass Communications and American Empire, Second Edition, Updated, 
  Herbert I. Schiller 
  FORTHCOMING 
  The Social Uses of Photography: Images in the Age of Reproduction, Hanno Hardt 
  Introduction to Media Studies, edited by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen, Serafina 
  Bathrick, and Andrew Mattson 
  Music Television, Jack Banks 
  Media Transformations in the Age of Persuasion, RobinK. Anderson 
  A Different Road Taken: Profiles of Five Critical Communication Scholars, 
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