World Peace Mass Culture and National Policies

The author offers an analysis of forms of U.S. mass culture that support parallel or critique official national regional and intergovernmental peace policy prevention and peacemaking. Major popular culture forms such as film television news media peace parks and public memorials and peace and justice movements are considered as public discourses influencing and reflecting public understanding of peace and war themes. The discussion includes events following September 11 2001.World Peace Mass Culture and National Policy takes a critical and analytical approach to Washington foreign policy; unilateralist methods; and corporatism as global hegemony. It includes a wide discussion of these issues based on cultural institutions and ideologies of mass culture in the U.S. The work critiques the notion that corporate capitalism and the consumer affluence of the U.S. alone can bring other societies to democratic practice.