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In this chapter, after discussing the work of Foucault, Hall, Barthes, Warburg, Mitchell, Kristeva and other key theorists and philosophers, a method of ‘intervisuality’ is developed, in order to find a way to analyse modern representations of terrorists in the context of the scapegoating ritual. The method itself integrates aspects of genealogy, discourse analysis, iconology, visual semiotics and anthropology, to construct a way of analyzing images that sufficiently accounts for the influences of cultural history, mythology, and other aesthetic concerns.
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Spens, C. (2019). Towards a Method of Intervisuality. In: The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04882-2_3
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