Nationalist Myths and Modern Media : Contested Identities in the Age of Globalisation (Paperback)

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 Dorfler and Andreas Klarner) - 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)