Concentrationary Imaginaries : Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

Name: Concentrationary Imaginaries
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781784534097
Price: 27300 KES
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ISBN: 9781784534097

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Format Hardback

Book Series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts

ISBN-10 1784534099

ISBN-13 9781784534097

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 25th, 2015

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 860 grams

Dimensions 16.70 x 24.20 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Relating to Jewish people and groups Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism Violence and abuse in society Violence in society

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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.

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