학술논문

Modern Zeus: drones, deinos, and dissuading dissent.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies. Sep2021, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p263-279. 17p.
Subject
*Audiences
Drone warfare
Invisibility
Civilians in war
Language
ISSN
1479-1420
Abstract
Although scholars have found that the United States drone program utilizes several strategies to maintain its invisibility or obfuscate itself from audiences, the drone strike in entertainment media offers visibility within a structure of terror and wonder. This article forwards deinos, a subset of the sublime that privileges terribleness over awe, as a productive lens for engaging these spectacles of power and applies it to a drone strike in Amazon's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. Overall, the deinos of a drone strike dissuades civilians from participating in democratic dissent by overwhelming audiences with power and limiting space to reveal its violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]