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Edward Ingebretsen SIGNED At Stake Rhetoric of Fear 2001 First Edition HB w/GOA
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- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Features
- 1st Edition, Signed
- ISBN
- 9780226380063
- Subject Area
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
- Publication Name
- At Stake : Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Media Studies, Unexplained Phenomena, Popular Culture
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 355 Pages
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Anyone who reads the papers or watches the evening news is all too familiar with how variations of the word monster are used to describe unthinkable acts of violence. Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh, and O. J. Simpson were all monsters if we are to believe the mass media. Even Bill Clinton was depicted with the term during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But why is so much energy devoted in our culture to the making of monsters? Why are Americans so transfixed by transgression? What is at stake when the exclamatory gestures of horror films pass for descriptive arguments in courtrooms, ethical speech in political commentary, or the bedrock of mainstream journalism? In a study that is at once an analysis of popular culture, a polemic on religious and secular rhetoric, and an ethics of representation, Edward Ingebretsen searches for answers. At Stake explores the social construction of monstrousness in public discourse-tabloids, television, magazines, sermons, and popular fiction. Ingebretsen argues that the monster serves a moralizing function in our culture, demonstrating how not to be in order to enforce prevailing standards of behavior and personal conduct. The boys who shot up Columbine High School, for instance, personify teen rebellion taken perilously too far. Susan Smith, the South Carolinian who murdered her two children, embodies the hazards of maternal neglect. Andrew Cunanan, who killed Gianni Versace, among others, characterizes the menace of predatory sexuality. In a biblical sense, monsters are not unlike omens from the gods. The dreadful consequences of their actions inspire fear in our hearts, and warn us by example.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226380068
ISBN-13
9780226380063
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1721077
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
355 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
At Stake : Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Media Studies, Unexplained Phenomena, Popular Culture
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2001-001078
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"[Ingebretson argues that] the monster is an emissary of frightening wisdom. Monsters are tribunes of social collapse, announcing the breakdown of social custom and civic boundary, particularly of race, class and gender. . . . Prophets of unwelcome knowledge, monsters are convenient targets of 'projectile contempt' and civic reprisal. Men and women seize on monsters to exorcize their own cultural demons."--Corey Robin, -- Times Literary Supplement, "Bad people are not merely monsters. Casual vilification of such people, as Edward J. Ingebretsen argues in his outstanding study At Stake , offers temporary reassurance of one's own civility. We sacrifice their humanity in order to strengthen the idea that we ourselves are normal, forgetting that all of us are deviations from the norm." Boston Globe, "Ingebretsen has written a provocative work of cultural criticism, drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis, sociology, and literary studies to say something unique about public discourse. With considerable articulate skill, he demonstrates how 'living in' monster metaphors promotes hateful ideologies and violence. . . . At Stake is a model contribution to the many fields of academic augury, rhetoric, media, and cultural studies most especially."-Joshua Gunn, Argumentation and Advocacy, Ingebretsen has written a provocative work of cultural criticism, drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis, sociology, and literary studies to say something unique about public discourse. With considerable articulate skill, he demonstrates how 'living in' monster metaphors promotes hateful ideologies and violence. . . . At Stake is a model contribution to the many fields of academic augury, rhetoric, media, and cultural studies most especially., "[Ingebretson argues that] the monster is an emissary of frightening wisdom. Monsters are tribunes of social collapse, announcing the breakdown of social custom and civic boundary, particularly of race, class and gender. . . . Prophets of unwelcome knowledge, monsters are convenient targets of 'projectile contempt' and civic reprisal. Men and women seize on monsters to exorcize their own cultural demons."--Corey Robin, -- Times Literary Supplement
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.23/0973
Lc Classification Number
P96.M62i54 2001
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Prologue: What the Angle Said Introduction: Thinking about Monsters 1Gothic Returns: Haunts and Profits 2Drive-by Shouting 3Redressing Andrew: Cunanan's Killing Queerness 4Susan Smith: When Angels Fall 5Reading the Starr: Scandal and Auguries 6Death by Narrative 7Sacred Monster: Matthew Shepard Coda: Common Weal, Common Woe Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2001
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