Discourse Theory and Cultural Analysis.

Media, Arts and Literature.

Editors: Nico Carpentier (VUB & KUB) & Erik Spinoy (ULG)

Table of contents

Introduction

From the political to the cultural

Nico Carpentier and Erik Spinoy

Media

TV, Radio & Print

1. Dichotomized media discourses of war

The construction of the self and the enemy in the 2003 Iraq war

Nico Carpentier

2. Reading the new horizon

The role of Romanian media discourse in the 2004 elections power shift

Henrieta Anişoara Şerban

3. Embedded identity building in Chinese/Taiwanese English-language press narratives

Lut Lams

Arts / film

4. The changing national identity in contemporary Mexican cinema

Germán Martínez Martínez

5. Antagonism and genre

Resistance, the costume romance and the ghost of Greek communism

N. Y. Potamitis

6. Chilean traumatized identity

Discourse theory and the analysis of visual arts

Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela

Ads

7. A discursive critique of McJob

Putting Laclau, Mouffe and Bakhtin to work

David M. Boje and Yue Cai

8. Deconstructing a Portuguese city

Cement, advertising and the hegemony of ‘green growth’

Anabela Carvalho

ICT

9. An(other) enemy

The representation of otherness in videogame culture

Evangelos Intzidis and George Prevedourakis

10. The ‘outside’ inside us

Antagonisms and identities in Taiwanese online gay forums

Yow-Jiun Wang

11. Downloading as piracy

Discourse and the political economy of the recording industry

Benjamin de Cleen

Literature

12. Agonism and literary history

Stuart Sim

13. Literary imaginaries

On experiencing (in)determinacy in German modernism

Sascha Bru

14. ‘These really comprehensible poems that really touch you’

The rise and fall of the new realist discourse in Flemish poetry

Erik Spinoy

15. Both self and other

The construction of ‘Flanders’ in national socialist literary discourse

Ine Van linthout

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