Murder, the media, and the politics of public feelings [electronic resource] : remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. / Jennifer Petersen.
2011
HV6773.52 .P48 2011eb
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Murder, the media, and the politics of public feelings [electronic resource] : remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. / Jennifer Petersen.
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9780253005212 (electronic book)
9780253223395 (paperback)
9780253356598
9780253223395 (paperback)
9780253356598
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 210 p.)
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HV6773.52 .P48 2011eb
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070.4/493641523
Summary
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 toward these crimes is the subject of this gripping new book by Jennifer Petersen. Tracing the emotional exchange from news stories to the creation of law, Petersen calls for an approach to media and democratic politics that takes into account the role of affect in the political and legal life of the nation.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.