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The Dynasty Years
The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television. From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis' fight in the lilypond or the Moldavian wedding massacre to the unprecedented gay sub-plot, Dynasty represented, in the words of co-producer Esther Shapiro, "the ultimate dollhouse fantasy for middle-aged women". Using evidence from audience survey results, newspaper and magazine clippings and letters to broadcasters and drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism and critical social theories, Jostein Gripsrud examines every aspect of Dynasty's production, reception and context. The result is a groundbreaking critical study. Jostein Gripsrud offers a theoretical but empirically grounded critique of many central positions in media studies, including notions of 'audience resistance' and the 'sovereign' audience and its freedom in meaning-making, arguing against what he perceives as the uncritical celebrations of the soap-opera genre in much contemporary media criticism.
US Counterterrorism and the Human Rights of Foreigners Abroad
This book examines why the United States has introduced safeguards that are designed to prevent their counterterrorism policies from causing harm to non-US citizens beyond US territory. It investigates what made US policymakers take steps to "put the gloves back on" through five case studies on the emergence of such safeguards related to the right not to be tortured, the right not to be arbitrarily detained, the right to life (in connection with targeted killing operations), the right to seek asylum (in connection with refugee resettlement), and the right to privacy (in connection with foreign mass surveillance). The book exposes two mechanisms – coercion and strategic learning – which e...
Routledge International Handbook of Policing Crises and Emergencies
This handbook explores those occasions when the police are faced with a public, national, or international crisis and are expected to continue to serve. It provides a unique, scholarly, and international overview on policing crises and emergencies, addressing the different contexts and challenges of working in extraordinary circumstances, dealing with unfamiliarity, and working with and alongside other agencies, as well as the significant political and public requirement to return as quickly as possible to normality. Sections include coverage of: • Policing disasters • Policing public health emergencies • Policing political protest • Policing terror and conflict • Policing mass violence • Policing extreme crises and emergencies Each section is filled with a variety of international case studies examining best practice in the policing context, together with a scene-setting chapter tying together key theoretical and conceptual concepts. It is essential reading for all engaged with professional policing, law enforcement, and public order.
Treatment of Detainees in U. S. Custody
Contents: The Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques; The Authorization of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Techniques for Interrogations in Iraq; Witnesses: Richard Shiffrin, Former Dep. Gen. Counsel for Intell., DoD; Daniel Baumgartner, Jr., USAF (Ret.), Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA); Jerald Ogrisseg, USAF Survival School; Diane Beaver, USA (Ret.), Joint Task Force 170/JTF Guantanamo Bay; Jane Dalton, USN (Ret.), Former Legal Advisor to the Chmn., Joint Chiefs of Staff; Alberto Mora, Former Gen. Counsel, U.S. Navy; William Haynes, II, Former Gen. Counsel, DoD; John Moulton, II, USAF (Ret.), Former Commander, JPRA; Steven Kleinman, USAFR, Former Dir. of Intell., Personnel Recovery Acad., JPRA. Illus.
The Guantanamo Effect
This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration’s "war on terror." Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation’s descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more than sixty former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key government officials, military experts, former guards, interrogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding their captu...
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