Description
| Product ID: | 9781350229556 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts |
| Title: | Concentrationary Imaginaries |
| Subtitle: | Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman |
| Page Count: | 330 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, Photography and photographs, Films, cinema, Film history, theory or criticism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cultural studies, Violence and abuse in society, Ethical issues and debates, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Photography & photographs, Films, cinema, Film theory & criticism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cultural studies, Violence in society, Ethical issues & debates, Jewish studies, Fascism & Nazism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force. In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase ''the concentrationary universe'' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-09 |
