Media narratives : : productions and representations of contemporary mythologies / / Christiana Constantopoulou.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Kōnstantopoulou, Chrysoula,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2023]
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)

"Media constitute a privileged field of analysis as it interferes dynamically with the current popular ideas and myths (myths which narrate, explain and often justify social realities - such as games of power, economic and financial inequalities, drug dealing, disasters, diseases or pandemic th...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgement
• Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Media Narratives of Contemporary Mythologies
• 1 The Anthropological Aspects of Media Narratives
• 1.1 The Archetypal Dimensions of the Imaginary
• 1.2 The "Spirit of the Time"
• 1.3 The Power of Storytelling: The Narrative Spell Cast over Politics and Society
• 1.4 The "Common Sense" in Fictional Productions
• Chapter 2 The New Criminal News: Narrative Modalities on Fear of Crime in Newscasts of the City of Buenos Aires, 2015-2019
• 1 The Production of Police News on Television: Introductory Remarks
• 2 Fear of Crime in the News: Conceptual Framework and Antecedents
• 3 The Centrality of Police Stories in Newscast
• 4 Police News as Spectacle
• 5 "Hot" Zones, Hazards, and Potential Victims
• 6 The Narration of Crime on Television: Reflections on the Construction of Police News and Its Relationship with the Prevention by the Public
• References
• Chapter 3 'Sex, Drugs and Communism': Far-Right Narratives about Universities in Brazil
• 1 'Sex, Drugs and Communism'
• 2 Disinformation Ecosystem
• 3 Higher Education under Siege
• References
• Chapter 4 The Business Elite and Media Worked Together?: Analyzing Both Narratives in the Brazilian 2016 Impeachment Process
• 1 Introduction
• 2 São Paulo Business Elite's Narrative on Media
• 2.1 Findings on the Business Elite's Political Discourse Strategies
• 3 The Manchetômetro Database
• 3.1 Manchetômetro Data Analysis
• 4 Discussion
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5 Crime or Commiseration: The Contingent Framing of Homelessness on Brazilian Television
• 1 Methodology
• 2 The Repossession in Downtown São Paulo on September 16, 2014.
• 3 News Framing: The Homeless from the Criminalization Perspective
• 4 Interpretive Framing
• 5 The Homeless from the Commiseration Point of View: The Wilton Paes de Almeida Building Collapse Affair in 2018
• 6 Closing Comments
• References
• Chapter 6 Immortal and Happy! Myths about Vulnerability in the Press
• 1 Classical Greek Mythology on Vulnerability and Happiness
• 2 Science, Technology and Happiness
• 3 Pandemic and Vulnerabilities
• 3.1 Have There Been Changes in the Treatment of the Idea of Progress?
• 3.2 Have There Been Changes in the Treatment of Scientism?
• 3.3 Have There Been Changes in the Treatment of Vulnerabilities?
• References
• Chapter 7 Blogging National Identity
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Blogs and 'Identity'
• 3 Greek Political Blogs
• 4 The Case-Study
• 5 The Blogs-Media Ecosystem
• 6 The 'Prolific' Blogs
• 7 The Legacy Media
• 8 The Blogs
• 9 Discussion
• 10 The First Narrative: A Divided Nation
• 11 The Second Narrative: Conspiracies
• 12 Comparing Discourses
• 13 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Chapter 8 Contemporary Mythologies of Television's Fictional Institutions in the United States
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Myths and Television Fiction
• 3 Television's Fictional Institutions
• 4 Myths and Fictional Institutions in the United States
• 5 The Good Doctors of Grey's Anatomy
• 6 The Bad Cops of Chicago P.D.
• 7 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 9 Mexican Drug Dealers in TV Series: Symbols of New Heroism or the Adulation of Bandits?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Drug Trafficking in Mexico: From Underground Business to Pop Media Culture
• 3 Creating the Archetype
• 4 Methodology
• 5 Joaquín Guzmán Loera, What We Know about Him
• 6 El Chapo, the TV Hero
• 7 Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the First Big Kingpin
• 8 Félix in Narcos
• 9 Capos, in between Historical and Mythical Life
• 10 Conclusions.
• References
• Chapter 10 Mythic Representations of Heterosexual Relations in Popular Serials: Romantic Love against "Hyper Realistic" Porn
• 1 From Popular Stories to Soap-Operas: Fantasies and Archetypes
• 2 Sex and the City: Reporting "Single Women's" Love Affairs
• 3 Desperate Housewives: Dealing with Current Myths about Family and Household Life
• 3.1 Family and Violence
• 3.2 Everyday Issues
• 3.3 "Juicy" Delinquency
• 4 Negotiating Heterosexual Love: Symbols, Archetypes and Emotional Capitalism
• 4.1 The Oppression of Females
• 4.2 Rareness of Alternative Forms of Erotic Love in the Contemporary Dominant Myths
• 4.3 Heterosexual Love Archetype
• 4.4 "Escaping" into Dreams
• 4.4.1 Psychologically the Dreams Are Necessary as Counterbalance of a Fade Reality
• 4.4.2 Dreams Can Only Become True If They Are Created, First in Imagination and Second by Making Them Happen, with Ideas, Plans, Commitment and Faith
• References and Bibliography
• Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks: Consumer Storytelling in Advanced-Modern Societies
• Subject Index
• Names Index
• Back Cover.