Concentrationary Imaginaries - Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Release date:	August 2015
Editors:	Griselda Pollock • Max Silverman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-78453-409-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
LSN:	1-78453-409-9
Barcode:	9781784534097

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