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标题：Exit Stage Left: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Media Accounts of Executions in America
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作者：Karen S. Miller ; Scott A. Hunt
期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2008
卷号：15
期号：2
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：Despite the fact that anthropologists have long noted that rituals associated with death are central to understanding a culture's worldview, studies of capital punishment have not examined its ritualistic elements. The purpose of this paper is to address this shortcoming by examining news media portrayals of capital cases as emergent ritual dramas of death. We used narrative and content analysis methods to examine 524 newspaper reports of 100 executions that occurred between January 1, 1990 and April 30, 2005. We sought to determine the types of information reported, the structure of the reports, and their functionality in the dramaturgy of executions. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for future research suggested by our analysis
关键词：Death penalty; media; dramaturgy; executions