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In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seltzer, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Crime in mass media.
Crime in popular culture.
Literature and society.
Suspense fiction > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • I. THE DAILY PLANET
  • ONE. INTRODUCTION TO THE OFFICIAL WORLD
  • TWO. BRECHT'S RABBIT
  • II. STATIONARY CAROUSELS AND CHAIN LETTERS
  • THREE. "THE PROPER STUDY OF INTERACTION"
  • FOUR. CHAIN LETTERS
  • III. "SOCIAL GAMES"
  • FIVE. PARLOR GAMES
  • SIX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE
  • IV. SUSPENDED WORLDS
  • SEVEN. THE WALL OF THE WORLD
  • EIGHT. MARCHING IN FILES
  • V. NEWS FROM THE OUTSIDE
  • NINE. THE TURN TURN
  • TEN. A POSTSCRIPT ON THE OFFICIAL WORLD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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