CRM 3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Argot, Hegemonic Masculinity, Social Bandit
31 Jul 2018
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09/29/17 (7) the pictures in our heads": risk, entertainment, and fear (pt. 4) What is the crime problem: dominant, organized crime, government corruption, terrorism, terrorism, psychopathic criminality, violent street crime ends up being a subplot. As the protagonists of the comic books are attempting to challenge terrorists, they may come upon street crime and be forced to deal with that, but that is not what predominates: social problems subplots. Social problems do not have anything to do with crime, but they still emerge in comic books (e. g. environmental destruction). What is justice: reproduce dominant notions of justices good vs. evil; morality vs. immorality (diametrically opposed to each other). What is the desired social order: nostalgia for better" times/places infrequent time; just" punishment. In the past, there was less crime (less frequent, less violent). In this mythic past, punishments were just because they fit the crime; justice itself was clearer.
