Research Catalog

Title

Media narratives : productions and representations of contemporary mythologies / edited by Christiana Constantopoulou.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

Kōnstantopoulou, Chrysoula

Description

xiv, 208 pages : illustrationss (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Media constitute a privileged field of analysis as it interferes dynamically with the current popular ideas and myths (myths which narrate, explain and often justify social realities - such as games of power, economic and financial inequalities, drug dealing, disasters, diseases or pandemic threats). In this frame, the archetypal dimensions of the imaginary, of gossiping and of storytelling also seem to play an important role even in the frame of the (so called) "rational discourse". Media Narratives is an effort to analyze ongoing narratives (either political or fictional) in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Mexico or United States, expressing interpretations of contemporary events (such as crimes, scandals, diseases or political activism), but also presenting common beliefs and desires revealed by the popular artistic creations. These narratives compose the mythical background of the contemporary globalized world, the "spirit of the time" as Edgar Morin had named it, a spirit which is expressed in current ideas and mentalities. This effort can be characterized as a representative survey of popular beliefs of the 21st Century represented in storytelling. The articles collected in this book will reveal some important facets of the contemporary mythologies"--

Series Statement

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 228

Uniform Title

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 228.

Subject

• Myth in mass media > Case studies
• Mythology in mass media > Case studies
• Storytelling in mass media > Case studies
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Case studies
• Social representations > Case studies
• Mass media > Social aspects > Case studies
• Mass media > Political aspects > Case studies
• Mass media > Political aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Myth in mass media
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Social representations
• Storytelling in mass media

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Media narratives of contemporary mythologies / Christiana Constantopoulou -- The new criminal news : narrative modalities on fear of crime in newscasts of the city of Buenos Aires, 2015-2019 / Mercedes Calzado, Mariana Fernández, Yamila Gómez, and Vanesa Lio -- 'Sex, drugs and communism' : far- right narratives about universities in Brazil / Gabriela Villen, Graziela Ares, Leda Maria Caira Gitahy, and Leandro R. Tessler -- The business elite and media worked together? : Analyzing both narratives in the Brazilian 2016 impeachment process / Humberto Fernandes and Eduardo Barbabela -- Crime or commiseration : the contingent framing of homelessness on Brazilian television / Pedro Paulo Martins Serra -- Immortal and happy! Myths about vulnerability in the press / José A. Ruiz San Román, Enrique García Romero, Jaqueline García Cordero, Lucía Acuña-Pedro, and Miranda Claudio Cornejo -- Blogging national identity / Hara Stratoudaki -- Contemporary mythologies of television's fictional institutions in the United States / Melina Meimaridis -- Mexican drug dealers in TV series : symbols of new heroism or the adulation of bandits? / Omar Cerrillo Garnica -- Mythic representations of heterosexual relations in popular serials -- romantic love against "hyper realistic" porn / Christiana Constantopoulou -- Concluding remarks: Consumer storytelling in advanced-modern societies / Christiana Constantopoulo.

Call Number

JFE 24-1418

ISBN

• 9789004518391
• 9004518398
• 9789004518384 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022060648

OCLC

1350734621

Title

Media narratives : productions and representations of contemporary mythologies / edited by Christiana Constantopoulou.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 228

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 228.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Kōnstantopoulou, Chrysoula, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Media narratives Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023 9789004518384 (DLC) 2022060649

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1418