UID:
almafu_9959245307102883
Format:
1 online resource (322 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-7556-0434-2
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0-85772-544-0
Series Statement:
New encounters, art, cultures, concepts
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes filmography.
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Series preface. Concentrationary memories : the politics of representation / Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman -- Introduction. A concentrationary imaginary? / Griselda Pollock -- Part 1. thinking. Framing horror / Adriana Cavarero -- Between realism and fiction : Arendt and Levi on concentrationary imaginaries / Olivia Guaraldo -- Totality, convergence, synchronization / Ian James -- Part 2. Desire. Wrap me up in sadist knots : representations of sadism -- from Naziploitation to torture porn / Aaron Kerner -- Redemption or transformation : blasphemy and the concentrationary imaginary in Liliana Cavani's / Griselda Pollock -- Part 3. Camp. Seep and creep : the concentrationary imaginary in Martin Scorsese's Shutter island (2010) / Benjamin Hannavy Cousen -- Haneke and the camps / Max Silverman -- Spec(tac)ularizing 'Campness' : Nikita and La Femme Nikita the series / Brenda Hollweg.
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Also available in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78453-409-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755604340
