Breaking the Offender - The Representation of Criminals in TV Series
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Mass media play an important role in shaping public perceptions about different
thematics, including crime and justice. The consumption of mediatic contents in
different forms, such as newspapers, television news and crime dramas, can affect
the way people perceive and interpret concepts as deviance and punishments, the
attitude towards the criminal system and the level of concern for becoming a victim.
In the last years, Streaming Videos On Demand platforms have made easier the
access and the consumptions of contents as crime dramas; the changes in the
modality of fruition have been followed by changes in the representation of
characters, with the introduction and the increasing diffusion of morally ambiguous
figures. This opens new possibilities of research, particularly regarding the modes
of representation of criminals as antiheroes. The purpose of the article is then to
investigate how the figure of the offender is constructed as antihero in four Original
Netflix Productions (You, Narcos, Ozark, La Casa de Papel). A Critical Discourse
Analysis of two narrative themes is conducted combining Marxist and
Postmodernist interpretative approaches.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö universitet/Hälsa och samhälle , 2020. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
Offender, Antihero, Crime Drama, Synthetic Approach, Critical Discourse Analysis, Marxist/Postmodernist perspective
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24357Local ID: 32788OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-24357DiVA, id: diva2:1485774
Educational program
HS Criminology
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-11-022020-11-02Bibliographically approved