Philip Hammond’s Media, War & Postmodernity is a critical study of how war is represented, managed and made meaningful through contemporary media systems.

Moving through late twentieth-century conflict and the language around humanitarian intervention, terrorism, postmodern politics and public opinion, Hammond looks at the way war becomes not only something reported on, but something mediated into moral spectacle, crisis narrative, official explanation and consumable image.

It is serious but readable, with one foot in political communication and another in the broader question of what happens when violence is processed through screens, institutions, states, NGOs, news cycles and liberal moral language. Good for readers interested in media studies, postmodernism, war reporting, propaganda, humanitarian intervention, Kosovo/Somalia/Iraq-era discourse, cultural studies, and the politics of spectatorship.

Routledge paperback, first published 2007. Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall. Good second-hand condition, with light shelfwear and handling. Internally clean.