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Hierarchy And Responsibility In Media: Cults, Culpability, And Culture, Max Hargett
Hierarchy And Responsibility In Media: Cults, Culpability, And Culture, Max Hargett
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This is a descriptive research project that investigates how popular entertainment media portrays cults. My intention is to see how the selected films and television shows portray issues of hierarchy and culpability within the cult and to explore how the genre and theme of the content was utilized in order to evoke certain reactions and sentiments in the audience. The selected films were The Sacrament, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Midsommar. The selected television shows were Waco and American Horror Story: Cult. Each film and series is given its own analysis. Findings indicate that a common theme of the rigid …
Durkheim's Cult Of The Individual As Civil Religion: Its Appropriation By Erving Goffman, James J. Chriss
Durkheim's Cult Of The Individual As Civil Religion: Its Appropriation By Erving Goffman, James J. Chriss
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