Concentrationary imaginaries. Tracing totalitarian violence in popular culture /

Concentrationary imaginaries. Tracing totalitarian violence in popular culture /

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Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015.
Description:	xix, 300 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New encounters : arts, cultures and concepts New encounters.
Subject:	Violence in motion pictures. Violence on television. Violence in motion pictures. Violence on television.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10385554

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Other authors / contributors:	Pollock, Griselda, editor. Silverman, Maxim, editor.
ISBN:	9781784534097 1784534099
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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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Call Number:	PN1995.9.V5C66 2015
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