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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
2015.
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| Colección: | New encounters (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281), filmography (page 283) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857739087 0857739085 9780857725448 0857725440 9781786724434 178672443X 1784530441 9781784530440 |