Journalism 300 – Visual Communication


Contemporary depictions of evil
April 17, 2008, 5:42 pm
Filed under: Assignments

In his video presentation, Keen argued that acts of war and terror are often generated as a response to the perception of an “evil other.”

Here is a link to a page about his book and DVD.

For this week, select and discuss a contemporary image of an “evil other.” Your choice may be from cinema, from journalism, or from popular culture, or indeed anywhere else.

Here are the key requirements: It must depict or represent “the other,” and it must be contemporary. (It need not be “evil” in an absolute sense).