Concentrationary imaginaries tracing totalitarian violence in popular culture
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
New encounters, art, cultures, concepts. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4253365x*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | xix, 300 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 269-281), filmografía (p. 283) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780857739087 9780857725448 9781786724434 9781784530440 |
