1st Edition
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis A Study in Conflict Propaganda
1. Introduction
2. Immediate Causes of the 2014 Crisis
3. Liberal Freedom Fights or Fascist Militia?
4. Absent Context (1) Struggle for Eurasia
5. Absent Context (2) Preparing the Neoliberal Turn in Ukraine’s Economy
6. Crimea, Odessa, and Eastern Ukraine (Donbass)
7. Representation, Misrepresentation and the Demonizing of Vladimir Putin
8. The downing of MH17
9. The Russians are (maybe/probably not) Coming
10. Articulating the Principles of Western Conflict Propaganda
11. Conclusion
Biography
Oliver Boyd-Barrett was formerly Director of the School of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, and now lectures at California State University. He is author of several books, including Hollywood and the CIA: Cinema, Defense and Subversion (Routledge 2011).
