The far and extreme right in documentaries

Euphemisation, Exceptionalisation, and Humanisation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2149478
AutoresLuke Shuttleworth (0009-0005-4731-5725, Politische Soziologie und Sozialpolitik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Kevin Okonkwo (Politische Soziologie und Sozialpolitik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Flo Bremner (0000-0001-7452-5860, PoLIS, University of Bath, Bath, UK), Aurelien Mondon (0000-0002-3453-7821, PoLIS, University of Bath, Bath, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume48
Fascículo3
Páginas447-471
Data de publicação2025-02-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2307394
OpenAlexW4391653788
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas51

Much debate has taken place recently on the way in which far and extreme right actors are portrayed by mainstream media. Building on an international corpus of 30 documentaries, we combine discourse theory, corpus linguistics, and multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine how far and extreme right actors are portrayed in documentaries, a format of growing discursive importance which has been under-researched thus far. Our analysis contributes in particular to the fledgling literature on the role played by the media in the mainstreaming of racism and the far right. Crucially, it illuminates how processes of euphemisation, exceptionalisation and humanisation can lead to the legitimisation of politics otherwise opposed by the filmmakers. Beyond mapping such processes and building on more positive approaches in the field, we formulate recommendations for best practices when engaging with the far and extreme right in documentaries

Critical discourse analysis · Extreme right · Far right · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Mainstream · Mainstreaming · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism