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At stake : monsters and the rhetoric of fear in public culture / Edward J. Ingebretsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingebretsen, Edward J., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monsters in mass media.
- Mass media--United States.
- Mass media.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence. In this book, Edward Ingebretsen sets out to discover what is really at stake when we turn someone into a "monster." The monster, he finds, serves a moralizing function in our culture, making exaggerated examples of particular evildoers in order to reaffirm prevailing standards of behavior and personal conduct.
- Contents:
- Prologue: What the Angel Said xiii
- Introduction: Thinking about Monsters 1
- 1 Gothic Returns: Haunts and Profits 19
- 2 Drive-by Shouting 43
- 3 Redressing Andrew: Cunanan's Killing Queerness 71
- 4 Susan Smith: When Angels Fall 99
- 5 Reading the Starr: Scandal and Auguries 125
- 6 Death by Narrative 153
- 7 Sacred Monster: Matthew Shepard 177
- Coda: Common Weal, Common Woe 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226380068
- 0226380076
- OCLC:
- 46240233
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