ISBN:
3030048810
,
9783030048815
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 253 pages
,
22 cm
DDC:
303.625094
Keywords:
Terrorism in mass media
;
Terrorism and mass media
;
Terrorism Press coverage
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Terrorism Social aspects
;
Villains in literature
;
Villains in mass media
;
Orientalism
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Westliche Welt
;
Massenmedien
;
Terrorist
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index
