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UNINA9910968476803321 |
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Autore |
Petersen Jennifer <1970-> |
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Murder, the media, and the politics of public feelings : remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. / / Jennifer Petersen |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-23589-7 |
9786613235893 |
0-253-00521-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hate crimes - United States - Public opinion |
Gay people - Crimes against - United States |
African Americans - Crimes against |
Mass media and public opinion - United States |
Mass media and gay people - United States |
Mass media and race relations - United States |
Mass media - United States - Influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : media, emotion, and the public sphere -- Mourning Matthew Shepard : grief, shame, and the public sphere -- "Hate is not a Laramie value" : translating feelings into law -- The murder of James Byrd Jr. : the political pedagogy of melodrama -- The visibility of suffering, injustice, and the law -- Conclusion : feeling in the public sphere. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard -- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming -- and James Byrd Jr. -- an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas -- provoked a passionate public outrage. The intense media coverage of the murders made moments of violence based in racism and homophobia highly visible and which eventually led to the passage of The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The role the media played in cultivating, shaping, and directing the collective emotional response |
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