{"product_id":"9783030048815","title":"The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSpens, Christiana\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2019-01-14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030048815\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-04882-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 253\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47708651094156,"sku":"9783030048815","price":76.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030048815.jpg?v=1776782023","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030048815","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}