Concentrationary Imaginaries : Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
ISBN-10
1350229555
ISBN-13
9781350229556
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 9th, 2021
Print length
330 Pages
Weight
730 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.20 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Theory of artPhotography & photographsFilms, cinemaFilm theory & criticismPhilosophy: aesthetics
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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.
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