Week 7- Cobb Chapter 7 (Sin)

While popular media is not always clear about what exactly has gone wrong with society, most mediums agree that something is in error. Cobb identifies the genre of "Jeremiad", a denouncing of the sins of the people complete with a warning and demonstration of judgment. This genre is found in social films and books as well as the post-apocalyptic (Cobb 2005: 218). Cobb also identifies the Gothic as a despairing of the sinfulness of the world.