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T1 The discourse of fear in american TV fiction: a furedian reading of person of interest
A1 Fernández Morales, Marta
A1 Menéndez Menéndez, María Isabel
K1 Post-9/11 TV
K1 fear
K1 precautionary culture
K1 inevitability
K1 agency
K1 Communication
K1 Comunicación
AB Inserted in the ongoing discussion about the post-9/11 cultural archive, this paper analyzesthe TV series Person of Interest (CBS, 2011–2016), created by Jonathan Nolan, through FrankFuredi’s theories about the discursive formation of fear as presented in his texts Politics of Fear.Beyond Left and Right (2005), Invitation to Terror. The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (2007),The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is the ‘Culture of Fear’ Itself (2007), and Precautionary Culture andthe Rise of Possibilistic Risk Assessment (2009). We make these works converse with severalAmerican and European sociological views, offering a transnational perspective over the issues athand. With an interdisciplinary approach and with a critical-cultural methodology supported byselected instances from the first four seasons of the show, we argue that, despite timid hints at acritique of the flawed American democracy, the show feeds into an ever-growing array of mediaproposals of a citizenship based on precaution, contributing to the reinforcement of the post-9/11atmosphere of fear through a logic predicated on inevitability and a deflated sense of agency on thepart of common people that discourages practices of resistance.
PB Universidad Complutense de Madrid
SN 2386-3935
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4720
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4720
LA eng
NO Spanish Ministry of Economy andCompetitiveness (National 2013-2016 Research & Development Program. Reference: FFI2014-55781-R
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 26-abr-2024