Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the role the media play in cultivating, shaping, and directing the collective emotional response toward crime
Trade ReviewPetersen grounds her study in a wide array of literature about topics including the ethics of mediating suffering, masculinity, gender, class, melodrama, liberalism, the public sphere, imagined communities, reason, and emotion. . . . Graduate students interested in cultural studies, gender and queer studies, and/or advocacy may find Petersen's book useful.
* JHISTORY H-Net *
Petersen makes use of an intriguing thesis and presents an insightful source for journalism and broadcasting students. July 2011
* Library Journal *
Petersen offers an impressive reading of media discourses illustrating the value of public feelings and how they can become animating forces in the production of civic action.
* Great Plains Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Media, Emotion, and the Public Sphere
1. Mourning Matthew Shepard: Grief, Shame, and the Public Sphere
2. "Hate is Not a Laramie Value": Translating Feelings into Law
3. The Murder of James Byrd Jr.: The Political Pedagogy of Melodrama
4. The Visibility of Suffering, Injustice, and the Law
Conclusion: Feeling in the Public Sphere
Appendix: Text and Interview Selection
Bibliography
Index
