Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / George Gerbner
  • Pt. I. Introductory Perspectives. 1. Images and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy / Hamid Mowlana. 2. Elements of Cross-Cultural Communication and the Middle East / Mazharul Haque. 3. Competing News Narratives, Consensus, and World Power / Thomas Roach
  • Pt. II. U.S. Media and the Middle East: A General Perspective. 4. The Palestinian Leadership and the American Media: Changing Images, Conflicting Results / R. S. Zaharna. 5. Middle Eastern Women in Western Eyes: A Study of U.S. Press Photographs of Middle Eastern Women / Karin Gwinn Wilkins. 6. U.S. Media Coverage of the Intifada and American Public Opinion / AnneMarie A. Daniel. 7. Mediating the Other: American Pop Culture Representation of Postrevolutionary Iran / Hamid Naficy. 8. Covering Up Iran: Why Vital Information Is Routinely Excluded from U.S. Mass Media News Accounts / David Detmer
  • Pt. III. U.S. Media and the Persian Gulf War. 9. The U.S. Media and the 1993 War against Iraq / Douglas Kellner.
  • 10. Limiting the Options: Anti-Arab Images in U.S. Media Coverage of the Persian Gulf Crisis / Lee Wigle Artz and Mark A. Pollock
  • Pt. IV. U.S. Media and the Middle East: Newspapers and Magazines. 11. The Arab Image in Newspaper Political Cartoons / Allen W. Palmer. 12. Coverage of Arabs in Two Leading U.S. News-magazines: Time and Newsweek / Mahboub Hashem. 13. America Looks at the Turks: Analysis of Major U.S. Newsmagazines' Coverage / Peggy Bieber-Roberts
  • Pt. V. Electronic Media and the Middle East. 14. Portrayal of Iranians in U.S. Motion Pictures / Jane Campbell. 15. Hollywood Holding Us Hostage: Or, Why Are Terrorists in the Movies Middle Easterners? / Linda K. Fuller
  • Pt. VI. Media Impact and Perception. 16. Islam and the West: Cultural Encounter / Krista E. Wiegand and Abbas Malek. 17. Through a Glass Darkly: American Media Images of Middle Eastern Cultures and Their Potential Impact on Young Children / Robert L. Schrag and Manoocher N. Javidi. 18. American Students' Perception of Arabs in Political Cartoons / Maher N. Al-Hajji and Jack A. Nelson.