From realism to virtual reality : images of America's wars / H. Bruce Franklin -- Images of the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars in U.S. television / Daniel C. Hallin -- Kicking the Vietnam syndrome : CNN's and CBS's video narratives of the Persian Gulf War / Michelle Kendrick -- The Gulf War as total television / Tom Engelhardt -- Time and the television war / Victor J. Caldarola -- The International media and the Persian Gulf War : the importance of the flow of news / Holly Cowan Shulman -- Site unseen : an analysis of CNN's war in the gulf / Mimi White -- The media's war / Ella Shohat -- Operation Desert Comfort / Dana L. Cloud -- Missiles and melodrama (masculinity and the televisual war) / Robyn Wiegman -- Soap opera woes : genre, gender, and the Persian Gulf War / Lauren Rabinovitz -- The gendered gulf / Cynthia Enloe -- Supermarket tabloids and Persian Gulf War dissent / Leonard Rifas -- Perspectives on the Persian Gulf War in popular black magazines / Venise T. Berry and Kim E. Karloff -- Military presences and absences : Arab women and the Persian Gulf War / Therese Saliba -- Only the guns have eyes : military censorship and the body count / Margot Norris -- Afterword : Bringing the death-world home / Susan Jeffords -- A Persian Gulf War chronology.