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The portrayal and punishment of terrorists in Western media : playing the villain
- Title
- The portrayal and punishment of terrorists in Western media : playing the villain / Christiana Spens.
- Author
- Spens, Christiana
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- vii, 253 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functins 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 'villian', so as to build national unity and sustain hegemonic power following crisis--back cover.
- Subjects
- Terrorism and mass media
- Terrorism > Social aspects
- Orientalism
- Terrorism and mass media > Western countries
- Villains in literature
- Terrorism > Social aspects > Western countries
- Western countries
- Terrorism in mass media
- Villains in mass media
- Mass media > Political aspects > Western countries
- Orientalism > Western countries
- Terrorism > Press coverage > Western countries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards a Theory of Scapegoating, Catharsis and Narrative Closure -- 3. Towards a Method of Intervisuality -- 4. A Genealogy of the Terrorist in Western Culture -- 5. Portrayals of Terrorists -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2940
- ISBN
- 3030048810
- 9783030048815
- LCCN
- 2018962254
- OCLC
- 1059266662
- Author
- Spens, Christiana, author.
- Title
- The portrayal and punishment of terrorists in Western media : playing the villain / Christiana Spens.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2940