Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong - Hardcover

Cerulo, Karen A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415917980 ISBN 13: 9780415917988

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

""Deciphering Violence ex-plicates the language of violence in American culture, revealing the conventions that journalists and artists use to tell stories about violence, and explaining how these storytelling conventions influence the impact of violent images on the viewers who are exposed to them. Professor Cerulo has given us a creative and insightful work of scholarship." -Paul Dimaggio, Princeton University "In addition to academic readers ranging from upper-division undergraduates through faculty, the audience for this book will include television professionals, parents, religious leaders, lawyers, and designers of video games. Excellent bibliography." -"Choice, Feb. 1999 "How is that narratives of violence fascinate as they repel? Karen Cerulo tells the story of violence with the inventiveness, the theoretical acuity, and the common sense and grace that make her intellectual agenda so compelling and her work unique. Activists and practitioners as well as theorists, will thank her for "Deciphering Violence." -Magali Sarfatti Larson

From the Publisher:

A must read!
In the current information age, Americans are bombarded daily with stories and images portraying a rising tide of violence. Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content, Deciphering Violence decodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts. The book identifies institutionalized forms of violent storytelling and raises new possibilities both for decreasing public tolerance of violence and increasing social control of the phenomenon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415917980
• ISBN 13: 9780415917988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201