The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media
Produktnummer:
186c02d46fca954174a4cd845394d25a7a
| Autor: | Spens, Christiana |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Girard aesthetics catharsis critical terrorism studies cultural sociology narrative closure ritual scapegoating terrorism visuality |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 14.01.2019 |
| EAN: | 9783030048815 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 253 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Untertitel: | Playing the Villain |
Produktinformationen "The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media"
This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations. Developing a theory of scapegoating related to narrative closure, as well as an integrated, genealogical method of intervisuality, the book proposes a new way of thinking about how political images achieve power and influence the public. By connecting modern portrayals of terrorists (post-9/11) with historical and fictional images of villains from Western cultural history, the book argues that the portrayal and punishment of terrorists in the Western media implicitly perpetuates neo-Orientalist attitudes. It also explains that by repeating these narrative patterns through a ritual of scapegoating, Western media coverage of terrorists partakes in a social process that uses punishment, dehumanization and colonialist ideas to purge the iconic ‘villain’, so as to build national unity and sustain hegemonic power following crisis.
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