The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media Playing the Villain /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Spens, Christiana (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Terrorism.; Political violence.; Peace.; Security, International.; Communication.; Political communication.; Mass media-Political aspects.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Conflict Studies.; International Security Studies.; Media and Communication.; Political Communication.; Media Policy.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.