All Outputs (6)

Immersive New Media And Abuse: Should There Be Regulations For How Interpersonal Abuse Is Broadcasted In Online Media? (2024)
Thesis

Media effect theorists have debated the extent to which media has influence over its audience with some believing that ‘heavy viewing’ may increase vulnerability, resulting in broadcasters introducing guidelines to reduce potential harm. These modera... Read More about Immersive New Media And Abuse: Should There Be Regulations For How Interpersonal Abuse Is Broadcasted In Online Media?.

Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent (2022)
Book
(2022). L. Rumson, & A. Bentham (Eds.), Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent. Emerald

A ‘good woman’ is hard to find. To be ‘good’, after all, women face expectations that are shifting, internally contradictory, emotionally extreme, and prospectively even deadly. To be divergent, on the other hand, is an expansive position, encompassi... Read More about Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent.

Art or science? Formulating empathy in Breaking Bad (2017)
Book Chapter

When Vince Gilligan pitched the idea for ‘Breaking Bad’ to studio bosses at AMC, his description of it as ‘a story about a man who transforms himself from Mr Chips into Scarface’ proved to be enough of a hook to take the show into production. Howeve... Read More about Art or science? Formulating empathy in Breaking Bad.

Fatal attraction : the serial killer in American popular culture (2015)
Book Chapter

Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano (2015)
Book Chapter

Summons and Repulsion: The Curious Appeal of Tony Soprano
In a Los Angeles Times article published in the wake of James Gandolfini’s death, Chris Lee described Tony Soprano, Gandolfini’s most famous incarnation, as ‘a cultural sensation’, ‘one of TV... Read More about Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano.

Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction
Thesis
Bentham, A. Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction. (Thesis). University of Salford

As Philip L. Simpson notes, humankind has an ‘ongoing...fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villains’ (15). Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid appeal as... Read More about Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction.