Format:
xix, 300 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781784534097
,
1784534099
Series Statement:
New encounters
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857739087
Language:
English
Keywords:
Film
;
Gewalt
;
Rezeption
Author information:
Pollock, Griselda 1949-
