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What is Witch Hunt

Chapter 14
International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television
The process initiated by the control actors of the society (such as police, media) against the person, group of people, incident or situation that is thought to violate the order of any society, and often legal mechanisms are put aside, resulting in various physical and psychological victimization.
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From “Hero” to “Evil”: The Movie Richard Jewell as an Example of Moral Panic
Bilal Süslü (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4778-6.ch014
Abstract
The security guard, who was the pioneer to prevent the suspicious package left in the entertainment area, was primarily declared as ‘hero' after the incident in Atlanta during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and then he was vilified as ‘evil' as a result of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and media representations about the incident. The incident was adapted into the movie Richard Jewell in 2019, directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie, in which Jewell's devastating life is narrated in the screenplay, is regarded as to be worth analyzing because the media reflects the witch hunt that Stanley Cohen defines as a moral panic. Consequently, the moral panic creation of the media is tried to be analyzed through the movie Richard Jewell in this study.
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