Name: Media Stories in the Falklands-Malvinas Conflict
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Author: Eco, Umberto ; Chauvel, Lucrecia Escudero
ISBN: 9781905510443

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Media Stories in the Falklands-Malvinas Conflict

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel

Preface by

Umberto Eco

Publisher

Critical, Cultural and Communications Press

Language

English

Pages

172

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781905510443

Synopsis "Media Stories in the Falklands-Malvinas Conflict"

"Here is yet another effect of fog, this time provided directly by readers in order to sustain the necessary suspense of the story. We seem to be halfway between Flatland and Antonioni's Blow Up. Argentine newspapers were obliged to find another narrative genre, shifting from war movies to spy novels. Who invented the Yellow Submarine? The British secret services, in order to lower the spirits of Argentines? The Argentine military command, in order to justify its tough stance? The British press? The Argentine press? Who benefited from the rumour? The Yellow Submarine was posited by the media, and as soon as it was posited everyone took it for granted. What happens when in a fictional text the author posits, as an element of the actual world (which is the background of the fictional one) something that does not obtain in the actual world?" Umberto Eco, from the Foreword

Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco (Alessandria, January 5, 1932-Milan, February 19, 2016) was an Italian semiotician, philosopher, and writer, author of numerous essays on semiotics, aesthetics, linguistics, and philosophy, as well as several novels, including The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco was a renowned atheist, very interested in the topic of religion.

In 2016, From Stupidity to Insanity, a posthumous compilation book of articles published in the press by Umberto Eco, selected by Eco himself before his death, was published.

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