Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations
van Elteren, Mel, Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA)
Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Ed. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
This volume focuses on representations of social deviance from mainstream society in a diversity of media, including popular books, films, television programs, musical forms, Internet sites, news accounts, and advertising. It aims to offer a critical understanding of the various ways in which media representations influence and shape widely shared notions of deviance and social otherness that often have negative effects on real people. Most of the essays concern case studies of such representations in US media and culture …
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Publication information:
Article title: Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations.
Contributors: van Elteren, Mel - Author.
Journal title: Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA).
Volume: 31.
Issue: 2
Publication date: June 2008.
Page number: 237+.
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