Justified’s visual rhetoric: television’s subtle unmasking of the myth of the south

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“…For instance, Leverette (2004) examined how Larry David subverts traditional comedic tropes in his series Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm to present deviant and adolescent behavior. Sciullo (2019) analyzed the drama series Justified to argue that the show's use of visual rhetoric criticizes the Myth of the South by representing the Myth of the West. Sears (1995) scrutinized how the BBC series Crimewatch combines current events with elements of crime drama to establish its verisimilitude with audiences.…”