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At Stake: Monsters And The Rhetoric Of Fear In Public Culture
Author: Ingebretsen, Ed
Hardback; Book
340 pages
Published: December 2001
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226380068

The media uses variations of the word monster to describe unthinkable acts of violence. This work explores the social construction of monstrousness in public discourse - tabloids, television, magazines, sermons, and poular fiction - arguing that the monster serves as a moralizing function.


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