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Sensational Subjects - The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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Sensational Subjects - The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? In the
early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the
sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were
deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader.
By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills,
and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the
language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this
process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn,
taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the
dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over
terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form,
in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of
our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative,
interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact
and their implications for understanding the modern world. A
companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and
Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by
Bloomsbury.
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