Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalisation

by Jan Herman Brinks, Edward Timms, Stella Rock

Overview

A fascinating look at the role of the media in fostering nationalism, with a comparative approach that shows the interactions between American, Russian and German nationalism. Extreme nationalism is a subject of enormous contemporary significance today. Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into nationalistic aggression? Is this exacerbated by the global outreach of the media? And what is the relationship between mainstream politics and increasingly vocal far-right groups in Britain, the US, Germany and Russia? This book addresses these questions from a variety of angles, exploring topics ranging from the War on Terror to Holocaust denial, from the 'sanctity' of Rasputin to the 'martyrdom' of Rudolf Hess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845110383
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/2005
Series:	International Library of Political Studies , #10
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jan Herman Brinks is an historian of modern and contemporary German history and an investigative journalist. Edward Timms is Research Professor in History at the University of Sussex and Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Stella Rock is an historian of Russian Orthodoxy.

Table of Contents

Myths for a New Millennium: An Introduction (Edward Timms)

PART I: Politics and the Media: Global, National and Local
- 'If I Ruled the World': National Interest and Global Responsibility in American Foreign Policy (Stephen Burman)
- A Global Master Plan? The American Far Right and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (Martin Durham)
- Retelling the News in Central Europe: Western Journalism as Democratic Discourse (James Miller)
- Mystification in the Media from 'Ritual Murder' to the 'War on Terrorism' (John Theobold)
- Holocaust Denial in the United Kingdom (Michael Whine)
- The British Medai and the Far Right (Gerry Cable and Chana Moshenska)
- Strangers in Our Midst: Letters to the Editor in a Swedish Local Newspaper (Bo Petersson)

PART II: After the Wall: Political and Media Discourses in Germany and Austria
- Patriotism or Nationalism? German Notions of Political Normality since 1900
- Germany's New Right (Jan Herman Brinks)
- Rudolf Hess as a 'Martyr for Germany': The Reinterpretation of Historical Figures in Nationalist - Discourse (Thomas Dörfler and Andreas Klärner)
- The Holocaust and Infotainment: An Analysis of Guido Knopp's Television Series Holokaust (Michael Elm)
- Whose Burden? The Significance of the Israel-Palestine Conflict in German Identity Politics (Antje Schuhmann)
- The Austrian Tabloid Neue Kronen Zeitung and Its Campaign against Those Who 'Foul Their Own Nest' (Liza El Rifaie)

PART III: Myth and Media in Post Soviet Russia
- Modern Russian Nationalism on Television and Radio as a Reflection of Political Discourse (Sergei Zassorin)
- 'Hate Speech' in the Media: Monitoring Prejudice in the Russian Press (Tanya Lokshina)
- Making Virtual (Non)sense of the Past: Russian Nationalist Interpretations of Twentieth-century History on the Internet (Francis King)
- Holy Russia versus the Fallen World: Conservative Orthodox Mythologies in Contemporary Russia (Alexander Verkhovsky)
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Myth of a Jewish Conspiracy in Post-Soviet Russia (Michael Hagemeister)
- Rasputin the New: Mythologies of Sanctity in Post-Soviet Russia (Stella Rock)