Media narratives : productions and representations of contemporary mythologies / edited by Christiana Contantopoulou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Contantopoulou, Christiana, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 228.

Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth in mass media--Case studies.

Myth in mass media.

Storytelling in mass media--Case studies.

Storytelling in mass media.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Case studies.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Social representations--Case studies.

Social representations.

Mass media--Social aspects--Case studies.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Media narratives of contemporary mythologies / Christiana Constantopoulou

The new criminal news narrative modalities on fear of crime in newscasts of the city of Buenos Aires, 2015-2019 / Mercedes Calzado, Mariana Fernández, Yamila Gómez, and Vanesa Lio

'Sex, drugs and communism' : far- right narratives about universities in Brazil / Gabriela Villen, Graziela Ares, Leda Maria Caira Gitahy, and Leandro R. Tessler

The business elite and media worked together? Analyzing both narratives in the Brazilian 2016 impeachment process / Humberto Fernandes and Eduardo Barbabela

Crime or commiseration : the contingent framing of homelessness on Brazilian television / Pedro Paulo Martins Serra

Immortal and happy! Myths about vulnerability in the press / José A. Ruiz San Román, Enrique García Romero, Jaqueline García Cordero, Lucía Acuña-Pedro, and Miranda Claudio Cornejo

Blogging national identity / Hara Stratoudaki

Contemporary mythologies of television's fictional institutions in the United States / Melina Meimaridis

Mexican drug dealers in TV series : symbols of new heroism or the adulation of bandits? / Omar Cerrillo Garnica

Mythic representations of heterosexual relations in popular serials

romantic love against "hyper realistic" porn / Christiana Constantopoulou

Concluding remarks: Consumer storytelling in advanced-modern societies / Christiana Constantopoulo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Media narratives

ISBN:

9789004518384

900451838X

Publisher Number:

40031652178

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.