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The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain (in English)
Christiana Spens (Author)
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Palgrave Macmillan
· Hardcover
The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain (in English) - Christiana Spens
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Synopsis "The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain (in English)"
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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The book is written in English.
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